THE BYTEFIELD PACKAGE Scott Pakin ---------------------------- Description ----------- The bytefield package helps the user create illustrations for network protocol specifications and anything else that utilizes fields of data. These illustrations show how the bits and bytes are laid out in a packet or in memory. Copyright and license --------------------- Copyright (C) 2000 Scott Pakin This package may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.2 of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in: http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.2 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 1999/12/01 or later. The bytefield package consists of all files listed in the MANIFEST file. Building bytefield ------------------ tex bytefield.ins <== Produces bytefield.sty (the package proper) latex bytefield.dtx <== Produces bytefield.dvi (documentation); run twice to get the references correct Note that bytefield comes with pre-built documentation (PDF format, U.S. letter-sized paper, 22 pages). Also, there is an example.tex file that shows how one might include hyperlinks in a protocol diagram. example.tex needs the hyperref package and should be run through pdflatex. (Or modify example.tex to use a different hyperref backend.)