[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:40:08AM -0600, John McDermott wrote:
> There is only one change that may have additional impact.  The
> colorization filter file now has a header with a "magic number" of
> "#EC".  The magic number is followed by a (probably never-changing)
> version number.  This is to allow the combo box in the capture dialog to
> select only color files from the ~/.ethereal directory.

Another possibility might be to have a directory under ~/.ethereal,
containing color filters; this'd mean you wouldn't have to open and read
files to see whether they were color filter files, you could just treat
all files in that subdirectory as color filters.