Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Tethereal

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:17:01 -0800 (PST)
> Can someone tell me if it is possible to compress the packets captured by
> tethereal on the fly?

We do not support writing compressed capture files.  (Anybody who wants
that capability is invited to send us patches....)

Attempts to make tethereal write to "/dev/stdout" (which should work on
Linux, various BSDs, Solaris, and at least some other UNIXes, although
some of them may require you to configure "/dev/fd" support into your
kernel) and then to pipe its output to "gzip -f" ("-f" to force "gzip"
to read from its standard input and write to its standard output) were
unsuccessful.