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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Small patch for prefs.c

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:19:18 -0800
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:50:13PM +0100, Tomas Kukosa wrote:
>   preference name chacking is too strict and I can not register
> "tcp.port" preference for "tc" module (it is module in my plugin).
>   Suggested solution is attached.

Checked in.

(Just out of curiosity, why do people use "tcp.port" rather than
"tcp_port" for TCP port preferences?  There aren't a bunch of
TCP-related options, one of which is a port number, in those dissectors,
so it's not a multi-level name space.)