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Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Plugin/dissector HOWTO

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From: Duncan Sargeant <dunc-ethereal-dev@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 01:53:54 +1000
Guy Harris wrote on Tue April 13, at 12:28 -0700:
> Stas Khirman said:
> > Do you have a some kind of HOWTO for writing a new plugin/dissector ?
> 
> There's "doc/README.developer" and "doc/README.plugins", although I don't
> know whether they're sufficient to be considred how-tos.

Just so you don't die wondering, I found them to be great starting
points.  Between that and reading the other dissectors, I managed to
cobble together some plugins in fairly short order.  Which is
testament also to the excellent plugin API - its so forgiving!  :-)

,dunc