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

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From: "W. Borgert" <debacle@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:09:33 +0000
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 02:23:04AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> (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.)

My "file manager" is /bin/sh etc., but I just tried out Nautilus
(the official GNOME file manager?), and it shows e.g. foo.xcf.gz
as "GIMP image (compressed)", which is correct and useful. Only
the extension seems to be considered, not the file contents
(which would change the access date of the files).

Cheers,
-- 
W. Borgert <debacle@xxxxxxxxxx>, http://people.debian.org/~debacle/