> I have been reading your thread and have not been able to figure out what nc 
> is
> (please let the answer not be netscape or something, I'll be embarrased for 
> life and 
> never post anything again).

nc = netcat.  Opens connection to a network port and cat's to or from it,
until it receives connection close.  Very handy for piping commands to
http or such for testing, where telnet wouldn't work since it terminates
on EOF, not connection closed.

Lennart Sorensen


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