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24.4.50; tramp uses wrong arguments to nc

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 18199 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#18199: 24.4.50; tramp uses wrong arguments to nc
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:18:10 +0200

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:

> Well, as you might guess I have tested this with my own equipment. My
> silly router runs a more recent version of busybox, which requires the
> "-p" prefix for nc's port specification:
>
> # nc -l 51257
> nc: bad address '51257'
> # nc -h
> nc: invalid option -- h
> BusyBox v1.19.3 (2012-08-08 12:53:46 CEST) multi-call binary.
>
> Usage: nc [-iN] [-wN] [-l] [-p PORT] [-f FILE|IPADDR PORT] [-e PROG]

It's more likely a BusyBox configure option, since the version I have
(v1.19.4 from openWRT) doesn't even accept -l.

Andreas.

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