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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2010-01-09 17:06:10 -0800
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2010-01-09 17:06:10 -0800
commited73055294647b82419bbcc002474823755cc84b (patch)
tree5c8a510b3772a167e36f8938e8b090d302e1be54 /pcap_open_offline.3pcap.in
parentb4b664817bf8e0e81b44bed53ab5ad07ab1a89bf (diff)
Mention that we can read some pcap-ng files.
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diff --git a/pcap_open_offline.3pcap.in b/pcap_open_offline.3pcap.in
index 825b3651..3f9f5a27 100644
--- a/pcap_open_offline.3pcap.in
+++ b/pcap_open_offline.3pcap.in
@@ -43,11 +43,15 @@ pcap_t *pcap_fopen_offline(FILE *fp, char *errbuf);
is called to open a ``savefile'' for reading.
.PP
.I fname
-specifies the name of the file to open. The file has
-the same format as those used by
+specifies the name of the file to open. The file can have the pcap file
+format as described in
+.BR pcap-savefile (@MAN_FILE_FORMATS@),
+which is the file format used by, among other programs,
.BR tcpdump (1)
and
-.BR tcpslice (1).
+.BR tcpslice (1),
+or can have the pcap-ng file format, although not all pcap-ng files can
+be read.
The name "-" in a synonym for
.BR stdin .
.PP