From ab8fcad92d07f079c50d2764dfa2ae6bfc3bd848 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: david <david@e0a8ed71-7df4-0310-8962-fdc924857419>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:08:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document the possibility of having comments in -iL and
 --excludefile in refguide.xml.

---
 docs/refguide.xml | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/refguide.xml b/docs/refguide.xml
index cf44fbe94..ecfccd541 100644
--- a/docs/refguide.xml
+++ b/docs/refguide.xml
@@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ you would expect.</para>
           newlines.  You can specify a hyphen (<literal>-</literal>)
           as the filename if you want Nmap to read hosts from standard
           input rather than an actual file.</para>
+          <para>The input file may contain comments that start with
+          <literal>#</literal> and extend to the end of the line.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
@@ -293,6 +295,8 @@ you would expect.</para>
           newline, space, or tab delimited
           <replaceable>exclude_file</replaceable> rather than on the
           command line.</para>
+          <para>The exclude file may contain comments that start with
+          <literal>#</literal> and extend to the end of the line.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
     </variablelist>