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 08:58:58 +0000
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.

> When I remember correct, I've seen .pcaz in the past sometimes. Or 
> should .pcap be used for these files too?

That's how the diagram editor "dia" does it: .dia for both
flavours, gzipped and not. This is OK, if all other programs
people might like to use for the same file type are able to use
the gzipped variant as well.

Cheers, WB