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Subject: Re: netcat strange behaviour
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Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> writes:

> shibbsd@spymac.com wrote:
> 
> >My netcat is the one from the official FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE s the system here now to check the exact version; I'll check it and post it
> >to the maillist a.s.a.p. (or look in web-cvs).
> >
> >As of telnet, it runs o.k., but I wanted to use netcat in a shell script... :(
> >Besides, that is what netcat is designed for, is it not?
> >
> >PS. sorry, as of 5.4-RELEASE I meant 5.4-RC2
> >
> Try
>     pkg_info -I netcat\*
> 
> Regardless of whether it is up-to-date or not you should try remaking
> it.  If it's not up-to-date then you should update it first.  The
> handbook will tell you how.  Try nc reading from stdin
>     nc -i 1 localhost 110
> and type the commands just like to telnet.  Does that work?
> 
> If it still doesn't work then there may be a bug in the port on 5.4
> and you might try reporting it.
> 
> Also, there seems to be a gnetcat port which is a rewrite of netcat.
> Try that.

Presumably the original poster was referring to the version in the
base system.