From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 29 11:33:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1592537B479; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:33:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9619A1C69; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 14:33:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 14:33:50 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola To: Peter Pentchev Cc: "James E. Housley" , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net Makefile ports/net/tcpcat Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-plist Message-ID: <20001029143350.Y37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <200010291223.EAA04156@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001029140801.X37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20001029211855.A500@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20001029211855.A500@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from roam@orbitel.bg on Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 09:18:56PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 09:18:56PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Also, netcat has some problems when reading from a pipe - sometimes it fails > to detect end-of-input, and just hangs there, waiting for never. tcpcat > does not have this problem. Someone imported another utility recently based on this reason. *shrug*, its good to cover all known programs, but pretty soon we'll need ports/utilities-to-act-as-a-basic-socket-echo-program -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message