freebsd-ports/net/tcpcat/pkg-descr
James E. Housley 1da4d26bf8 New Port: net/tcpcat
A simple utility for sending/receiving data over a TCP or a Unix-domain socket

PR:		22081
Submitted by:	Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
2000-10-29 12:23:52 +00:00

18 lines
751 B
Plaintext

From the tcpcat README:
Tcpcat is a simple program that is like `cat' but it works over tcp streams
to allow you to cat from one host to another.
The host common way to use this program whould be something like this:
on host a: $ tcpcat -l 93255 | gzip -dc | tar xvf -
on host b: $ tcpcat -h hosta:93255 file.tar.gz
Another good use for this program is debugging network stuff. When debugging
a newtork client or server you can pipe the output of tcpcat to a hex dump
(I recomend xxd which comes with vim). Also it can act as a crude telnet server
when invoded with --listen, --input, and --output, this mode is quite useful
for network program debugging as well.
Author: Angus Mackay <amackay@gusnet.cx>
WWW: http://www.gusnet.cx/proj/tcpcat/