Re: eof in nc (netcat)

[Bob Proulx]

Daniel Feenberg wrote:
> I don't know if this is the right mailing list (nc isn't mentioned in any 
> of the lists)

The GNU coreutils does not include netcat and so you are right that
this is not the mailing list for netcat.  Actually I don't even see
netcat listed as a gnu project but I don't really know the status of
it.  Searching the web says that the home page of "GNU" netcat is
http://netcat.sourceforge.net/ which seems strange if it really were a
GNU project program.

> and I don't know if it is a real bug or not, but the GNU version
> 0.7.1 of nc (the Gnu version of netcat) seems to differ from some
> other versions of netcat in its treatment of EOF on the standard
> input.

I have found that the Hobbit version of netcat handles end cases
strangely.  Instead of trying to use it I now use the ssh proxy
connect program much more often.

  http://www.meadowy.org/~gotoh/projects/connect/

You might find this program more suitable to your needs.

Bob