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 09:50:20 -0700
W. Borgert wrote:


My "file manager" is /bin/sh etc.,
There are times when I find file managers convenient for browsing files (e.g., browsing through directories full of documents), even though I open most capture files from the command line. 


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).
I think they might look first at the suffix, and then at the contents if necessary. I can't say what Nautilus (which is the official GNOME file manager) does, but the old KDE 1.x KFM file manager looked at contents (it flagged PDFs as such even though they had no ".pdf" suffix) and I think Konqueror (the new KDE file manager) does so as well.