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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] How to write a Plugin ?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:39:37 -0700
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 09:35:20PM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> In case you want to write a plugin: I'm not sure we have documentation for
> that,

"doc/README.plugins" gives some information on that.

As you noted, a plugin is just a dissector loaded at run time, so the
documentation on writing dissectors applies there as well.