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diff --git a/wiretap/wtap.h b/wiretap/wtap.h
index 20a3b188f3..7a8b1d94c2 100644
--- a/wiretap/wtap.h
+++ b/wiretap/wtap.h
@@ -1359,23 +1359,29 @@ typedef struct wtap_wslua_file_info {
} wtap_wslua_file_info_t;
/*
- * For registering extensions used for capture file formats.
+ * For registering extensions used for file formats.
*
* These items are used in dialogs for opening files, so that
* the user can ask to see all capture files (as identified
* by file extension) or particular types of capture files.
*
- * Each file type has a description and a list of extensions the file
- * might have. Some file types aren't real file types, they're
- * just generic types, such as "text file" or "XML file", that can
- * be used for, among other things, captures we can read, or for
- * extensions such as ".cap" that were unimaginatively chosen by
- * several different sniffers for their file formats.
+ * Each file type has a description, a flag indicating whether it's
+ * a capture file or just some file whose contents we can dissect,
+ * and a list of extensions the file might have.
+ *
+ * Some file types aren't real file types, they're just generic types,
+ * such as "text file" or "XML file", that can be used for, among other
+ * things, captures we can read, or for extensions such as ".cap" that
+ * were unimaginatively chosen by several different sniffers for their
+ * file formats.
*/
struct file_extension_info {
/* the file type name */
const char *name;
+ /* TRUE if this is a capture file type */
+ gboolean is_capture_file;
+
/* a semicolon-separated list of file extensions used for this type */
const char *extensions;
};
@@ -1897,7 +1903,7 @@ int wtap_short_string_to_file_type_subtype(const char *short_name);
/*** various file extension functions ***/
WS_DLL_PUBLIC
-GSList *wtap_get_all_file_extensions_list(void);
+GSList *wtap_get_all_capture_file_extensions_list(void);
WS_DLL_PUBLIC
const char *wtap_default_file_extension(int filetype);
WS_DLL_PUBLIC