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1Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across
2network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.
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4It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly
5or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a
6feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create
7almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting
8built-in capabilities.
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10This package contains the OpenBSD rewrite of netcat, including support
11for IPv6, proxies, and Unix sockets.  The installed binary is named
12"nc.openbsd" and the manpage is as well.
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14BTW, this package conflicts with the netcat in slackware as it creates
15a symbolic link /usr/bin/nc (to let libvirt stuff work correctly), so
16remove netcat (nc) from your system before building/installing this.
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