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

From: Chris Maynard <Chris.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:12:34 +0000 (UTC)
Alexander Koeppe <format_c@...> writes:

> Are the protocol help files still maintained?
> I can't find any on my system.
> 
>     ~/.wireshark$ find  -name protocol_help
>     ~/.wireshark$ find ~/build/wireshark  -name protocol_help
>     ~/.wireshark$
> 
> Why then keeping it?

Inacon supplied their help files in bug 3045:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3045.

But, my understanding is that since they were never incorporated into Wireshark,
Inacon supplies those help files themselves; however, they rely on the support
being there for it.

But, Inacon is not the only set of help files possible.  In fact, I opened bug
4870 to supply an alternate set of help files in addition to Inacon's.  See
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4870.  Internally, I also
supply help files for our proprietary protocols.