On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Prasad J Pandit wrote:

>> Interesting. My nc (debian unstable) has no -k option. Which version of nc
>> is this?
>
> Ummn... `$ rpm -q nc' shows this: nc-1.84-13.fc8
>
> Another interesting/strange thing is, my `nc' does not have command-line
> option to get version information, like -V, --version, or -version, etc.

debian unstable's nc does have -k, it's just not mentioned in the man page but
only in the nc -h output.

The point still being that your nc command line never listened to port 9999
which makes everyone wonder what service libcurl really connected to!

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