Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Bzip2 support

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 26, 2019, at 4:36 PM, ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yepp. BGZIP and its library you can link with does this. I even built
> a fuse filesystem to transparently "unzip" these kind of files.
> 
> What BGZIP does is that it will restart a new dictionary every ~64k
> bytes and also stores an index in a separate file.

libwiretap's gzip support requires neither of those.  It should be able to read any capture file compressed with gzip.