[maemo-users] netcat not working

[From: Julius Szelagiewicz]

> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 08:02, Julius Szelagiewicz <julius at turtle.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>  the subject tells it all - netcat is not working. Even if I run it
>> against localhost, the sending process just exits quietly without
>> waiting
>> for input while listening process gets no data. Any fixes, workarounds?
>
> What version of netcat are you using? Can you type the following in
> X-Terminal and paste the output, please:
>
>     $ apt-cache policy netcat
Andrew, here is the output:
Sig_05:~# apt-cache policy netcat
netcat:
  Installed: 0.7.1
  Candidate: 0.7.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.1 0
        500 http://repository.maemo.org diablo/free Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/statusig_05:~# apt-cache policy netcat
netcat:
  Installed: 0.7.1
  Candidate: 0.7.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.1 0
        500 http://repository.maemo.org diablo/free Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

julius