nc - Reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP
| Website: | http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/nc/ | 
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| License: | GPL+ | 
| Vendor: | Fedora Project | 
- Description:
- The nc package contains Netcat (the program is actually nc), a simple utility for reading and writing data across network connections, using the TCP or UDP protocols. Netcat is intended to be a reliable back-end tool which can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. Netcat is also a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create many different connections and has many built-in capabilities. You may want to install the netcat package if you are administering a network and you'd like to use its debugging and network exploration capabilities. 
Packages
| nc-1.84-19.fc11.x86_64 [59 KiB] | Changelog
              by Jan Zeleny (2009-04-03): - updated network reading to be more efficient (#493129) |