[GTG] Re: [ITP] socat

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:21:24AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> > Btw, I'm psyched that we have socat in the distro.  It's a useful tool.
>> > 
>> > Thanks, Andrew.
>> 
>> Yes, thanks Andrew, and thanks Yaakov for uploading and keeping the
>> cygwin-pkg-maint file in shape.
>
>You're welcome.  I only just recently discovered socat myself, and
>immediately decided that we needed to have it in Cygwin.
>
>> Btw., doesn't socat make my netcat package obsolete?
>
>In my opinion it does, but I'm sure that some people will want to stay with
>their old familiar nc.

Yes, I think most distros have both packages.

cgf