Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] other sniffers

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:37:56 -0800 (PST)
> On a related note, has anyone ever looked at reverse engineering the
> compressed Sniffer file format?  I've been thinking about doing it since I
> keep running into these files, but I don't want to duplicate effort.

I looked at it a while ago, but all I managed to figure out is that it
might be a combination of run-length encoding and some "string
dictionary" compresson scheme such as LZ.