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NAME

info 

SYNOPSIS

captime,truncated=info(hdr)

DESCRIPTION

get packet capture time and truncated status

funtion accepts libpcap header structure as input
funtion return two values:
   captime is a formated time in the form of hh:mm:ss
   trunctated is a boolean value: TRUE if truncated or FALSE if not   

 import pcap
 import py_net_libs

 p = pcap.pcapObject ()
 p.open_offline (file_to_open)
 pkt,hdr = p.next ()

 captime,truncated = py_net_libs.info (hdr)