Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Patch to add the "Decode as" functionality to tethereal

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:59:06 -0700
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 11:14:30PM +0200, Lionel Ains wrote:
> >	I added code to iterate through all the dissector tables,
> >	calling a routine for each table, so that the code doesn't have
> >	to hardwire in the names of dissector tables such as "ethertype"
> >	or "tcp.port".  (Many of the tables it lists might not be useful
> >	as targets of "-d", but....).
> >
> This is great because it actually adds more flexibility to what's 
> available in the GUI.

At some point it might be nice to have the GUI also no longer have
hard-wired knowledge of particular dissector tables.

> I hope this will be useful.  A patch containing all the changes above is 
> attached to this email (it is based on tethereal.c v1.186).

Checked in.