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authorGerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>2009-10-27 00:10:36 +0000
committerGerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>2009-10-27 00:10:36 +0000
commit94837ed1ce3f845e1a9eb320ca8377918b25bf15 (patch)
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Reflect the current status of Windows pipes.
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@@ -299,12 +299,10 @@ there are no non-loopback interfaces. If there are no interfaces at all,
B<Wireshark> reports an error and doesn't start the capture.
Pipe names should be either the name of a FIFO (named pipe) or ``-'' to
-read data from the standard input. Data read from pipes must be in
+read data from the standard input. On Windows systems, pipe names must be
+of the form ``\\pipe\.\B<pipename>''. Data read from pipes must be in
standard libpcap format.
-Note: the Win32 version of B<Wireshark> doesn't support capturing from
-pipes or stdin!
-
=item -k
Start the capture session immediately. If the B<-i> flag was