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Netcat in windows

Posted by stu at May 22nd, 2008

Just had a nightmare finding a binary for windows that wasn’t cygwinized… eventually found it here

[update]

Jon Craton has mirrored this file in case the other link goes down

(Cheers

[update 2]

It seems that antivirus programs mark netcat as a threat when actually it is just a useful tool – see conversation and links in comments for details.

Posted by stu at October 21st, 2007

I was getting an error ‘Cannot create executable’ when setting up MSYS, it turns out that the solution is to add

/mingw/libexec/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5

to your /etc/profile.

Cheers to the mailing list at nabble.