The GNU Netcat -- Official homepage (original) (raw)

Although the project development is marked as beta, GNU Netcat is already enough stable for everyday use.
Goals of this project are full compatibility with the original nc 1.10 that is widely used, and portability. GNU Netcat should compile and work without changes on the following hosts:

• Linux (test host: alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu)
• FreeBSD (test host: i386-unknown-freebsd4.9)
• NetBSD (test host: i386-unknown-netbsdelf1.6.1)
• SunOS/Solaris (test host: sparc-sun-solaris2.9)
• MacOS X (test host: powerpc-apple-darwin6.8) Other operating systems could be supported with minor source modifications, since the code has been written following the GNU coding standard conventions.
  If you find a bug or you want to report a successfull build on another OS, use thebug tracking system.

Soon the project will split releases between "stable" releases and "development" releases to improve development speed and the introduction of new features without requiring too much testing.

For further information, see the README and ChangeLog files in the package.
If you are courageous enough to try the newest development version or you want to contribute patches, you may want to check out the version in theCVS repository.