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Add some info as to the determination of the length of a FT_STRINGZ item. 

Add a note not leaving trailing whitespace on a line.

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Bill Meier 2011-04-01 20:48:56 +00:00
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@ -703,6 +703,8 @@ indentation logic at the beginning of this new file, especially if
you're using non-mod-8 tabs. The tabs-vs-spaces document above provides
examples of Emacs and vi modelines for this purpose.
Please do not leave trailing whitespace (spaces/tabs) on lines.
When editing an existing file, try following the existing indentation
logic and even if it very tempting, never ever use a restyler/reindenter
utility on an existing file. If you run across wildly varying
@ -1750,6 +1752,11 @@ 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.
The string length is normally the length
given in the proto_tree_add_item() call.
However if the length given in the call
is -1, then the length used is that
returned by calling tvb_strsize().
FT_EBCDIC A string of characters, not necessarily
NUL-terminated, but possibly NUL-padded.
The data from the packet is converted from