On 7 March 2012 11:39, Benny Gächter <benny.gaech...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:03:45 +0700 > schrieb Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info>: > >> eix netcat returned net-analyzer/gnu-netcat and net-analyzer/netcat >> >> What's the difference? Which one should I emerge? >> >> Rgds, > > net-analyzer/netcat is http://nc110.sourceforge.net/ > and net-analyzer/gnu-netcat is http://netcat.sourceforge.net/ > > Afaik...
The original netcat (net-analyzer/netcat) started suffering from bit rot and Vapier launched the community edition (http://nc110.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nc110/) in an effort to clean the code so that it compiles with modern code and machines. However that was 5 years ago. I don't know if progress has been slow, or no devs showed up. Then gnu-netcat kicked in to do the same thing not much later and also cater for other platforms. Finally, netcat6 http://netcat6.sourceforge.net/ showed up with improvements claiming better ipv6 support and re-write of the netcat code dropping some features and adding others. For my rather basic needs and perhaps due to adoption inertia I am still using the original netcat package, so can't advise about the others. -- Regards, Mick
