Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Any "standard" file extension for gzipped pcap files?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:23:04 -0700
W. Borgert wrote:

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:01:41AM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:
As Ethereal can read gzipped files "on the fly", is there a commonly used file name extension for this, which the installer should register too? 

What about .pcap.gz? That's what I use.
That's what I use, too, but I'm not sure Windows supports the notion of registering a file name extension containing a "." - or, alternatively, registering a pair of extensions.
(For that matter, I'm not sure whether other desktop environments, such as OS X, KDE, or GNOME, support it either - or whether KDE or GNOME, which can match on file *contents* as well as file *extensions*, would see a gzipped file and look at the beginning of the ungzipped contents, or, if they did, whether an application could register as one that can handle a gzipped file.)