From e0461ecd4384377042fe3787acddfcc4d1ed7587 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:03:12 -0400
Subject: Indicate tshark can read (-r) from stdin and named pipes now.

(Though it works only with certain formats.)  As requested in:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2874#c4

Change-Id: I2ce0509d8750b21ae0167d12459074ba0f9506f8
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/2646
Reviewed-by: Evan Huus <eapache@gmail.com>
---
 doc/tshark.pod | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc')

diff --git a/doc/tshark.pod b/doc/tshark.pod
index 29533f71a3..62e3b5e790 100644
--- a/doc/tshark.pod
+++ b/doc/tshark.pod
@@ -633,8 +633,9 @@ count and the end of a capture are not sent to stderr.
 =item -r  E<lt>infileE<gt>
 
 Read packet data from I<infile>, can be any supported capture file format
-(including gzipped files).  It's B<not> possible to use named pipes
-or stdin here!
+(including gzipped files).  It is possible to use named pipes or stdin (-)
+here but only with certain (not compressed) capture file formats (in
+particular: those that can be read without seeking backwards).
 
 =item -R  E<lt>Read filterE<gt>
 
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