Control: tag -1 pending On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 at 20:33:10 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hmm, regarding the above command the man page claims: > > It is an error to use [-l] in conjunction with the -p, -s, or -z > options. > > which isn't treated as an error but does the same as > > nc -l 12345 > > (which in turn does something else when using netcat-traditional that > needs -p to specify the (more suitable named) "local port number").
Using -l together with -p is in fact a Debian specific patch, but we forgot to edit the manpage accordingly. I just fixed that, and also allow the use of -l in conjunction with -s for consistency with netcat-traditional. -- Guilhem.
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