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Re: nc (netcat) and nc (nedit)



Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> writes:

> Hamish reminded me, when asking about atp, that a package I'm
> working on (netcat) has a binary called nc.  However, nedit
> also has an 'nc'.  Should I rename the nc binary to netcat?

I think people are much more likely to have written scripts that
depend on netcat named nc than scripts that depend on nedit named nc.
If you change it, you'll break all of them.  I'd say that you'd be
better to rename nedit's file than netcat's, but it won't really
effect me either way.


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