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The netcat Portfile 54601 2009-07-30 06:26:57Z toby macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: netcat
Version: 1.10
Revision: 2
Category: net
Maintainers: darkart.com:opendarwin.org
Description: Utility for managing network connections
Long Description: Netcat is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.
Platform: darwin freebsd
Master Sites: ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/netutils/netcat/ ftp://ftp.cuhk.edu.hk/pub/packages/security/purdue/netutils/netcat/
## http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/lprng/TOOLS/netcat
## http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pub/lprng/TOOLS/netcat/nc110.tgz

## provide a 'homepage' to make "port lint" happy...
Homepage: http://nc110.sourceforge.net/

##
## build the version string to match how netcat is distributed
regsub -all "\\." ${version} "" num
## and appropriately name the distfile
distfiles nc${num}.tgz
extract.mkdir yes

Checksums: md5 402632f2fe01c169ff19a0ad6e9d608c

use_configure no
build.target generic

destroot {
xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/netcat
xinstall -m 755 -s -W ${worksrcpath} nc ${destroot}${prefix}/bin
xinstall -m 644 -W ${worksrcpath} README ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/netcat
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/netcat
%  sudo port install netcat  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching netcat
--->  Verifying checksum for netcat
--->  Extracting netcat
--->  Configuring netcat
--->  Building netcat with target all

--->  Staging netcat into destroot

--->  Installing netcat

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using netcat with these commands:

%  man netcat
%  apropos netcat
%  which netcat
%  locate netcat

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