[ale] Still using plain FTP? Why?

[Michael Trausch]

I started using netcat because telnet can mess with binary services pretty badly. Haven't crashed one in a few years... But that is because I changed my habit. Use netcat a handful of times. It is an excellent tool.

It, and socat, and stunnel: an excellent trio useful for damn near anything. Well with spending a day studying the man pages and taking notes on post-it notes.

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> On Jan 20, 2015, at 1:05 PM, Byron Jeff <byronjeff at mail.clayton.edu> wrote:
> 
> It's simply counterproductive at this point to try to change horses for
> this activity. I pull out netcat when I want to create a temporary net
> service out of an existing command. Great for that. Worth looking at the
> manpage or example website to refresh how to use it.