Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Plugin and man problems

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:22:58 -0800
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:42:55PM +0200, Felix Radensky wrote (in HTML;
    it's generally considered preferable to send plain text mail, not HTML
    mail, to mailing lists):

> When I run ethereal, and go to Tools->Plugins, I get empty plugin list.

As per Gilbert's mail to the other person surprised at the empty plugin
list, That's Not A Bug, That's A Feature.

The Gryphon and MGCP dissectors are "new-style" plugins; they don't show
up in the plugin list, as they look just like non-plugin dissectors -
they can be enabled and disabled from the "Edit->Protocols" dialog box,
just as non-plugin dissectors can.  The ports used for MGCP can be
configured from the "Edit->Preferences" dialog box, in the tab labelled
MGCP, just as some other protocols' ports can be configured.

> Also make install-man doesn't seem to work in 0.8.15.

We got Rudely Surprised by some not-exactly-well-documented features of
automake; the next release should have this fixed.