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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Reading a capture file from stdin is really working?!?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:45:34 -0800
Ulf Lamping wrote:

LEGO wrote:

	...

 -i for sequential access.

... which only works with libpcap files.

...and only standard libpcap files at that. (It could also be made to work with other formats that have their own magic numbers - but it'd be harder for formats where we have to guess the file type.)