> -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
> On Jan 24 04:28, Dave Korn wrote: > > I've got a small patch for netcat that gives it two new options > > (-D/-X) to force dos or unix line ends when it's sending to the > > network. > I think we could try it with your patch. > > I have just one problem. I had to tweak the existing netcat > package only slightly to get cygwin support but I never got a > reply from the upstream maintainer. So, perhaps we'll never > get that upstream :-( > > Corinna That's kind of why I sent it to you, rather than upstream: I've submitted a patch to them once before, for netcat-1.1-nt, the win-specific version rather than the generic one. I got a reply from Hobbit saying they'd be glad to take a look if I made my patch fully cross-platform (perhaps my fault for not making it clear that my patch was against nc11nt.zip; I merely said it was 'for the windows version' and they may have assumed I was offering a patch for nc110.tgz that would break non-windoze builds; or perhaps they felt as a policy matter that having two diverged versions was bad enough already). In the end I never got back to them on that one, as I didn't have the time or convenient access to non-windoze machines for testing. However, considering that there's been no updates since '96 (nc110.tgz) or '98 (nc11nt.zip), I think it's fair to say that there's no serious effort at on-going maintenance or development work going on there. Even if they were to accept patches and add them into the versions available from the @stake website, they're not doing organized distributions/updates, so nobody would probably notice. I figure there would be no harm in branching off their version for cygwin. BTW, are you aware of the GNU netcat (http://netcat.sf.net/)? Someone's started off a project the idea of which seems to be to bring netcat up-to-date, tidy up the code and extend the functionality, and get an ongoing opensource development effort going. I haven't had enough time to look at it thoroughly yet; from what I've managed to see, it looks like a sound enough plan. I'm curious to know if you've examined it any more closely? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/