Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Some standards on dissector descriptions when registering

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 15:12:04 +0900
Hi,

I was just updating the user-guide and checked out the list of filterable
fields that are listed as appendices.

I noticed that there is an awful lot of variability in the way that they
are listed.

Some are listed as:

   Transmission Control Protocol (tcp)

While others are listed as:

   ILMI (ilmi)

The second tells the casual user almost nothing.

The information in the user guide is autogenerated from Ethereal itself.

I was wondering if we could have some standards on spelling out TLAs and
ETLAs.


Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
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