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Project Summary

Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP 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.

In a Nutshell, GNU netcat...

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has had 18 commits made by 1 contributors
representing 1,596 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with a well-commented source code
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has a codebase with a very short history
maintained by nobody
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 1 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in April, 2002
ending with its most recent commit about 21 years ago

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