Network Instruments' trace files sometimes cannot be read with an error message of "Observer: bad record: Invalid magic number"

This issue was migrated from bug 5330 in our old bug tracker.

Original bug information:

Reporter: Robert Bullen
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wireshark
Component: Capture file support (libwiretap)
OS: Windows XP
Platform: x86
Version: 1.4.0

Attachments:

bug5330.patch: A proposed patch to fix bug 5330

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