README
1Ncat v1.0.1
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4Ncat is covered by the GNU GPL. See the file "COPYING" for details.
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6Ncat was written to make piping data between hosts easy. There is
7another featureful tool called "netcat" but it is bidirectional
8(unlike cat) and doesn't work well in a pipe.
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10An example:
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12Start tar'ing up a directory. Ncat will wait for a connection on port
131111 before sending the data:
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15hostA# tar cz largedir | ncat -o :1111
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17To save the data on hostB run:
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19hostB# ncat hostA:1111 > largedir.tar.gz
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21Ncat also supports reading and writing to regular files.
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23To get the latest information on ncat visit:
24http://www.kyne.com.au/~mark/software.html
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26For information on using ncat read the man page.
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28Installing
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31Ncat will use long options if getopt_long() exists on your system.
32Recent versions of Glibc under Linux have it, on other systems you may
33need to install GNU getopt for that functionality. ncat will work
34equally well without GNU getopt.
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36To install:
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38# ./configure ; make ; make install
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40On BSD with GNU getopt installed separately you may need to use different
41CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS:
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43# CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include README=-L/usr/local/lib ./configure
44# make
45# make install
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47Feel free to email me if you have any problems, comments or suggestions.
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49- Mark Pulford <mark@kyne.com.au>
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