X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 21:45:31 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: nc6-1.0-1 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I've just uploaded a new package called nc6-1.0-1. nc6 (aka "netcat6") is a clone of the original netcat utility. From the netcat README: Netcat is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities. Netcat, or "nc" as the actual program is named, should have been supplied long ago as another one of those cryptic but standard Unix tools. Netcat6 is a total rewrite of netcat, with several advantages: It fully supports IPv6. It is far more efficient, utilizing flexible buffering and minimal (or no) data copying or analysis. The source is well structured, documented and very easy to follow. One of the main objectives of netcat6 is to produce an excellent example of AF independant networking and efficient data transfer. The code has minimal dependancy on the address family or protocol type and can be trivially extended to talk many layer 3 protocols. Greatly improved configuration and platform indipendence. Can support servers or clients that use TCP half-close. Some features of the original netcat are not present in netcat6, either because they haven't yet been implemented or because there exists better tools for the job. See the TODO file included in the netcat6 package for more information. nc6 builds on Cygwin out of the box. For more information see the project homepage: http://www.deepspace6.net/projects/netcat6.html To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=3D3Dyourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple