On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 09:14 +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:
The version in the Ubuntu repos is v1.10 and the man page states quite clearly that it's just "free", no GPL or anything, whereas the version at:
.. is 0.7.1 and is GPL, so I assume that these are different versions. I'll try the one in the Ubuntu repos for now.
The "classic" netcat is missing some features compared to the BSD version which should also be in the repros, generally I tend to install that one.