Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Live Capture from File

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 13:05:01 -0700 (PDT)
Shlomo Taub wrote:
> I have dumpcap running as a windows service. Is there any way I can get
> Ethereal to read its output file as in a live capture, e.g. updating the
> display whenever the file is written to?

If you had a program read from the file and write to a named pipe (along
the lines of the Un*x "tail" utility), and if Ethereal can capture from a
pipe on Windows, you might be able to do it that way.  You might have to
write the first program yourself, however.

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