Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Multiline in COL_PROTOCOL and COL_INFO

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:00:22 -0700
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:49:02PM -0400, nak26 wrote:
> I would say, in the case where there are multiple messages per TCP
> header, and you want to display the protocol's name (the protocol on top
> of TCP) for every message in the packet.

Tomas Kukosa said

	Note: there are two different possible features:
	1) multiline text in some columns
	2) multiple rows per packet
	My patch solve the 1st feature.  The 2nd feature can be implemented
	independently and both can be used together.

and what you're describing is "multiple rows per packet".

Either the purpose of multi-line text in some columns is to allow
multiple rows per packet - in which case the two features aren't
independent, they're the *same* feature - or it's to allow things such
as the summary info for HTTP showing the command and the message
headers, in which case it's not for the case where there are multiple
messages per TCP header.

Feature 2) would probably be more cleanly implemented if it didn't
involve newlines in columns.