On Thursday 15 November 2007 17:57, Jeff Pang wrote: > > On Nov 16, 2007 2:16 AM, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > First, what is 'nc'? I have an nc program on my HD but I don't > > think > > > > Somewhere else in the program you say it is used for port scanning. > > Perhaps if you used a more widely know program like nmap? > > nc means 'netcat', which is shipped on redhat linux (from 2.6 kernel > I think) by default.
I also have a netcat program on my system (SuSE) only here it is called 'netcat'. (Two letter command names were OK back in the 70's when there was little chance of collision.) :-) > > Second, CAT? Are you trying to win the UUOC award? > > what's UUOC? cat is just cat under linux/unix, `man cat' pls. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=UUOC+award+Randal+Schwartz John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
