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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] displaying binary data

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:48:31 -0700 (PDT)
Ulf Lamping said:
> Wasn't there a protocol dissector named "data"?

Yes, but it doesn't put the data into the protocol tree with offsets and
data values, in the fashion described.

> Anyway, should we provide such a common "unknown data" dissector?

If showing raw data in that fashion is useful in more than one place, yes.