BTW, tomsrtbt Linux-on-a-floppy and CygWin has netcat in them! Didn't know that, but I thought they might: http://www.toms.net/rb/tomsrtbt.FAQ http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=netcat/netcat-1.10-1&grep=ne tcat
What this means is that you don't have to setup a specific FTP or SSH or whatever server to transfer files between two machines. Just run CygWin or boot tomsrtbt on each box, [mount the desired hd partitions,] and use netcat as a server on one machine and a client on the other to transfer files. I can think of bunches of places to use this kinda functionality. John Hebert -----Original Message----- From: Adam J. Melancon To: [email protected] Sent: 6/3/03 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] very informative article on netcat I love netcat! here are the pages I used to learn about it. http://www.searchlores.org/aznetcat.htm http://is-it-true.org/pt/ptips21.shtml Here is a tip I left on the Knoppix forum "quick and dirty file transfer with netcat" I use this to transfer files sometimes in a pinch. It uses the tool netcat which is nc on the command line. To create a simple single file server: nc -l -p 1234 < file This example listens on port 1234 on knoppix, and when you connect to that port in a browser from another machine, the contents of the file named 'file' are sent to the client. Here is an example of when I used it to get an excel file. I went to the directory where the file exists, and typed in: nc -l -p 1234 < 10.xls then i go to my browser on the other machine http://<knoppix-box-ip>:1234 then i let it load (it looked garbled, but thats what the actual text of an excel file looks like if you were to cat it) and I think you have to hit stop after you see it's done. I then go to file and save, and save it as 10.xls. I can then open it in excel on the client computer. I know there are about 1000 different ways I could have grabbed that file, and I can't promise that it will work in your situation, but this is tips & tricks and I think it's a cool trick. Adam J. Melancon ----Original Message Follows---- From: John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> Subject: [brlug-general] very informative article on netcat Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:30:36 -0500 http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/05/29/netcat.html Netcat('nc') is to network ports what 'cat' is to files. Nice little tool I've just started learning about. I can see where netcat and busybox (http://www.busybox.net/) would form a tiny but powerful tool set for a very minimal system. John Hebert _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
