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Ethereal-dev: Re: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Can't compile Ethereal from current CVS on Windows.

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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:32:38 +0200
Tomas Kukosa wrote: 
> No. The H.245 does not use an Adler-32 checksum.
> It is only my decision to use it. It was the simplest 32bit "hash" which
> I found.
> It is only way to condense a string into 32 bits.

Guy Harris checked in some changes a few days ago so that it should now be possible to have strings in dissector tables.

Currently this functionality isn't in use, but could be useful for
registering OIDs, MIME-types etc.

/Martin