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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2015-01-16 10:40:26 -0800
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2015-01-16 18:41:39 +0000
commit23666badc500fb78609f09f112385c9da82e1e93 (patch)
tree938a9ab6e222f983a732c87dd59217329964a7ad /doc/text2pcap.pod
parentb6ec25f0b2da97e63354403964ac8d42988d7c9b (diff)
Spaces separate bytes; they don't have to surround them.
I.e., you don't need a trailing blank, at least not with the current version (and there shouldn't be a requirement for such an extra trailing blank). Change-Id: Ia2b732c74fc6020acc01a2c0c52ed3567d36d762 Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/6575 Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
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@@ -35,12 +35,13 @@ multiple packets. B<text2pcap> is also capable of generating dummy
Ethernet, IP and UDP, TCP, or SCTP headers, in order to build fully
processable packet dumps from hexdumps of application-level data only.
-B<Text2pcap> understands a hexdump of the form generated by I<od -Ax -tx1 -v>.
-In other words, each byte is individually displayed and
-surrounded with a space. Each line begins with an offset describing
-the position in the file. The offset is a hex number (can also be
-octal or decimal - see B<-o>), of more than two hex digits.
-Here is a sample dump that B<text2pcap> can recognize:
+B<Text2pcap> understands a hexdump of the form generated by I<od -Ax
+-tx1 -v>. In other words, each byte is individually displayed, with
+spaces separating the bytes from each other. Each line begins with an
+offset describing the position in the file, with a space separating it
+from the following bytes. The offset is a hex number (can also be octal
+or decimal - see B<-o>), of more than two hex digits. Here is a sample
+dump that B<text2pcap> can recognize:
000000 00 0e b6 00 00 02 00 0e b6 00 00 01 08 00 45 00
000010 00 28 00 00 00 00 ff 01 37 d1 c0 00 02 01 c0 00