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| author | Stephen Fisher <steve@stephen-fisher.com> | 2007-11-19 21:27:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Stephen Fisher <steve@stephen-fisher.com> | 2007-11-19 21:27:01 +0000 |
| commit | 849e6283346ef76c5fd405f2fec445484b990e70 (patch) | |
| tree | cdd747c833875091e8c335b5d27e83c4b050afb4 /doc | |
| parent | 53faa469bdb97d7c9b8f7efec6e7c2118a5ebdbe (diff) | |
Introduce a new field type called FT_EBCDIC. This field works the same as
FT_STRING, except that it converts the data from the packet from EBCDIC
to ASCII for display in Wireshark.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=23503
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/README.developer | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.developer b/doc/README.developer index 58bfde8cd7..e4f7df3cfb 100644 --- a/doc/README.developer +++ b/doc/README.developer @@ -997,8 +997,8 @@ FIELDABBREV The abbreviated name for the header field. (NO SPACES) FIELDTYPE FT_NONE, FT_BOOLEAN, FT_UINT8, FT_UINT16, FT_UINT24, FT_UINT32, FT_UINT64, FT_INT8, FT_INT16, FT_INT24, FT_INT32, FT_INT64, FT_FLOAT, FT_DOUBLE, FT_ABSOLUTE_TIME, - FT_RELATIVE_TIME, FT_STRING, FT_STRINGZ, FT_UINT_STRING, - FT_ETHER, FT_BYTES, FT_IPv4, FT_IPv6, FT_IPXNET, + FT_RELATIVE_TIME, FT_STRING, FT_STRINGZ, FT_EBCDIC, + FT_UINT_STRING, FT_ETHER, FT_BYTES, FT_IPv4, FT_IPv6, FT_IPXNET, FT_FRAMENUM, FT_PROTOCOL, FT_GUID, FT_OID FIELDBASE BASE_NONE, BASE_DEC, BASE_HEX, BASE_OCT, BASE_DEC_HEX, BASE_HEX_DEC, BASE_RANGE_STRING @@ -1542,6 +1542,10 @@ The type of value this field holds. The current field types are: types, are to be used for text strings, not raw binary data. FT_STRINGZ A NUL-terminated string of characters. + FT_EBCDIC A string of characters, not necessarily + NUL-terminated, but possibly NUL-padded. + The data from the packet is converted from + EBCDIC to ASCII before displaying to the user. FT_UINT_STRING A counted string of characters, consisting of a count (represented as an integral value) followed immediately by the |