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Follow a stream, saving to file not consistent, intended or not?

After selecting the menu option to Follow a UDP stream, I noticed something when selecting to display the data (as ASCII, Hex Dump or Raw) and then saving to a file.

1.) When 'ASCII' is selected and then saved, as expected, the file will contain what is shown in the follow dialog.

2.) When 'Hex Dump' is selected and then saved, as expected, the file will contain what is shown in the follow dialog.

3.) But when 'Raw' is selected and then saved, the file will NOT contain what is shown in the follow dialog. The file contains the actual raw bytes exactly as taken from the wire. It is a binary file and not a file which contains human readable hex byte characters (as displayed on dialog).

Is this the intended behavior for saving in Raw format?

I'm happy with its behavior and this is exactly what I need but it doesn't conform to other display behaviors. I don't want to rely on something that will be corrected in a later release.

Thanks