diff --git a/docs/refguide.xml b/docs/refguide.xml
index fb5a86d9c..4a60d6c21 100644
--- a/docs/refguide.xml
+++ b/docs/refguide.xml
@@ -4081,20 +4081,18 @@ hosts with at least one
reboot, or Nmap itself could crash. The administrator running Nmap
could cancel it for any other reason as well, by pressing
ctrl-C. Restarting the whole scan from the
- beginning may be undesirable. Fortunately, if normal
- () or grepable ()
- logs were kept, the user can ask Nmap to resume scanning
+ beginning may be undesirable. Fortunately, if scan output
+ files were kept, the user can ask Nmap to resume scanning
with the target it was working on when execution ceased.
Simply specify the option and pass
- the normal/grepable output file as its argument. No other
+ the output file as its argument. No other
arguments are permitted, as Nmap parses the output file to
use the same ones specified previously. Simply call Nmap as
nmap --resume
logfilename. Nmap will
append new results to the data files specified in the
- previous execution. Resumption does not support the XML
- output format because combining the two runs into one valid
- XML file would be difficult.
+ previous execution. Scans can be resumed from any of the 3 major
+ output formats: Normal, Grepable, or XML