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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] pcapng support for text2pcap

From: Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:09:22 +0000
On 2012-12-18 18:59, Christopher Maynard wrote:
> Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@...> writes:
> 
>> (Adding -n as a command line parameter would result in writing pcapng instead
>> of pcap).
> 
> Wireshark was changed to write pcapng files by default.  Should text2pcap write
> pcapng files by default as well, and then use a TBD command-line parameter to
> cause text2pcap to write a pcap file instead?

A possibility would be the "-P" command line option as used by dumpcap
1.8 to specify the creation of the capture in the old pcap format.

jpo
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