the gui and the services file really have little to do with each other.  the
gui uses \etc\services to resolve service names as do many other apps.

> I guess my real question, which may or may not have a 
> legitimate answer, is
> why are there services defined in the /etc/services directory 
> that are not
> in the GUI?

ctrl+f can save time when working with big docs.

> I knew about the IANA and other port list, but didn't have 
> the heart on a
> Friday afternoon to start staring at them, looking through 
> the thousands of
> entries for the name of the service, not realizing it was so 
> low on the
> list!
> 


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