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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] FW: [Ethereal-users] post processing script for "-R msnms -V"

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:07:39 -0600
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:42, Biot Olivier wrote:
> FYI
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Dickens
> 
> The "msnms" display filter, for MSN Messenger traffic, doesn't display the
> text of messages when you use it without -V.  With -V, the output is
> understandably verbose.
> 
> I wrote the following script to take the verbose output and generate a
> concise chat transcript.  It's not perfect; for one it can't keep track of
> the sender's id for messages originating locally.  But it's otherwise pretty
> good, I think.
> 
> Enjoy.
> 

tools/msnchat in the Ethereal distribution does something similar,
except that it produces HTML output.

--gilbert