Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] capturing data from a pipe

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:51:50 -0700
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:19:19PM +0200, Olivier Abad wrote:
> - the user will be able to specify a filename (for the pipe) in the
> capture dialog (or on the command line);

Presumably "filename" here would be the name of a named pipe?

You may also want to support "-", meaning "standard input", at least on
the command line, and perhaps also support a way of specifying a command
to run from whose standard output Ethereal will read captured packets.