Netcat for windows is available too as a binary, instead of having to install cygwin. http://www.atstake.com/research/tools/network_utilities/
Tool: Netcat 1.1 for Win 95/98/NT/2000 Version: 02.08.98 Platforms: Runs on Win 95/98/NT/2000 Extra Info: Read Me (also available in the tool's zip) Cryptcat - an encrypted netcat Netcat - The TCP/IP Swiss Army Knife Author: Chris Wysopal The current version for Unix was released in 1996 by Hobbit (see above). This Windows version was released by Chris Wysopal in 1998. Both Hobbit and Chris are part of @stake, Inc. Adam J. Melancon ----Original Message Follows---- From: John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: "'[email protected] '" <[email protected]> Subject: tomsrtbt and cygwin has netcat! was RE: [brlug-general] very informative article on netcat Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:34:35 -0500 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 _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
