On Jan 27, 2015, at 2:11 AM, Anil <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are you sure ? The first line of these files is
>
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! It was created by Wireshark
The second part of that comment might well be true; somebody might have created
it by using Wireshark as the editor.
However, it might also have been manually edited, after having been written out
by Wireshark at one point.
The first part is a warning that
1) if you manually edit it while Wireshark is running, and then save
color filters, Wireshark might override it (if it's your own color filter file)
and
2) if you don't know what you're doing, you might end up with Wireshark
ignoring or complaining about incorrect lines in the file.
> Should this comment be removed ?
It could be removed or replaced, but if somebody who doesn't enjoy manually
entering RGB values and manually editing a file whose format was not optimized
for human editability decides to edit it with Wireshark (by reading it in as a
set of color filters and then writing out the color filters), that comment will
be replaced by the "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!" comment, so it will return if
somebody contributes an updated version of the file that they produced by
writing out a file in Wireshark.
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