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On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:43:48PM -0700, Daniel C. Sinclair wrote:
>  The pkgsrc netcat is a pain in some situations:  like when I
>  cross-build into an NFS exported directory and netboot from that, I
>  have no netcat.

As much as I feel weird suggesting it, perhaps you want to look at
mount_portal's tcp namespace.  It can be very handy for the typical
things you might use netcat for in limited/rescue type environments,
such as piping remote dump data to restore.

--
Dan.


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