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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Source tree structure

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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:24:36 -0700
This is a wonderful idea. By coincidence, I was thinking that it'd be nice if
Ethereal supported something similar just this afternoon. Maybe even a URL that
could be used to view the relevant document via Mozilla or some such beast. 

Dinesh
Nathan Neulinger writes:
 > Just as a thought - why not have ethereal maintain this information
 > internally - and available from the gui. I.e. a
 > proto_register_doc(proto_*, ptr_to_doc_list_array). That seems much more
 > useful than just a source comment.
 > 
 > Then, a dialog in ethereal listing the protocols, and URL's/etc. to
 > documentation, resources, descriptions, etc. of those protocols.
 > 
 > -- Nathan
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