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Netcat - Reads/writes data across network connections

'Netcat' is a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. It is also a network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.

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Web pagehttp://netcat.sourceforge.net/
Source tarball http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/netcat/netcat-0.7.1.tar.gz?download
Source information http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=52204&release_id=179485
Version 0.7.1 (stable) released on 2004-01-10
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

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