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Subject: Re: [9fans] netcat, the only stdin/stdout redirector to tcp/udp conns?
From: Heiko Dudzus <heiko.dudzus@gmx.de>
Date: Wed,  5 Apr 2006 12:34:54 +0200
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> I hope this will not be any flame... but I hardly can believe that in a
> normal linux/bsd distribution there isn't any tool for redirecting
> stdin/stdout to a (new) tcp/udp connection. [...]
> The most similar program I found is 'netcat', but in all the versions
> I've seen, it makes SO_LINGER with linger active, with a 0 seconds
> timeout, making it unusable for a "close() after input EOT"-behaviour.
> Moreover, netcat isn't a default as "ls" or "cat".

I prefer 'netpipes' for that reason, (although uglier to call).

http://web.purplefrog.com/~/thoth/netpipes/netpipes.html

Heiko

P.S.: I see p9p builds without problems on NetBSD nowadays, so I'll
give dial a try.