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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] proto_help.c

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:03:55 +0200
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 08:37:53PM +0000, Chris Maynard wrote:
> Joerg Mayer <jmayer@...> writes:
> 
> > Just a question regarding the download: The download will only provide the
> > protocol_help/ph.ini file and to use it I need to be online? Or are the
> > pages also available offline?
> 
> By default, inacon's protocol help is available at
> http://www.inacon.de/ph/data/, since that's the location specified at the top of
> the ph.ini file.  But if you want help available even if not connected online,
> then all you need to do is download all their help to a local directory on your
> PC and change the location reference in the ph.ini file.  I have done this
> myself, and it works, at least with version 1.4.4.
> 
> I also renamed their generic ph.ini file to inacon.ini so I know which help file
> is which since I have three:
> 
> protocol_help\
>     myhelp.ini
>     inacon.ini
>     wireshark.ini
> 
> ... where myhelp.ini is help for my company's proprietary protocols, inacon.ini
> is the former ph.ini file, and wireshark.ini is essentially the help file I
> submitted with bug 4870.

Did you commit the code to suport several help files? How is the order of
the help entries decided if you have entries in more than one .ini file?

Thanks
        Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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