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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 54015: / /trunk/doc/: captype.pod /t

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:55:35 -0800
On Dec 12, 2013, at 8:13 PM, Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What benefit does this provide over simply "capinfos -t"?

It doesn't attempt to read any packets, so it's faster - as soon as the file is opened, it's done.