Re: nc (netcat) and nc (nedit)
One more thought. the Nedit "nc" goes in /usr/X11/bin. Where does the
netcat "nc" go? I believe it is acceptable to have several commands with
the same name in different directories (although this could be quite
confusing for users).
-Erik
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On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Erik Andersen wrote:
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> On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
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> > On 22 Nov 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
> >
> > > Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> writes:
> > >
> > > > Hamish reminded me, when asking about atp, that a package I'm
> > > > working on (netcat) has a binary called nc. However, nedit
> > > > also has an 'nc'. Should I rename the nc binary to netcat?
> > >
> > > I think people are much more likely to have written scripts that
> > > depend on netcat named nc than scripts that depend on nedit named nc.
> > > If you change it, you'll break all of them. I'd say that you'd be
> > > better to rename nedit's file than netcat's, but it won't really
> > > effect me either way.
> >
> > I second this. Not only do people write scripts relying on nc to be
> > netcat, but netcat is found on lots of unix systems that I use, unlike
> > nedit. Can you get more information on what nedit's nc command does?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brandon
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I maintain nedit, and I just uploaded the latest version this morning.
> The "nc" command from nedit is the nedit-client. When Nedit is started in
> server mode, you can then start up a client whenever you start editing.
> By doing the client-server thing, you get near instant editing, instead of
> having to wait for nedit to load (not that nedit takes all that long to
> load). It can be a nice thing, but I suspect that relativly few people
> actually use this feature. I have no strong opinions about the naming,
> except that people used to the nedit "nc" command would be surprised to
> suddenly have "netcat" do its thing instead. Anyway, I am willing to
> adjust the naming of Nedit's "nc" command if a consensis (spelling?) of
> the Debian developers agrees that this is the Right Thing(tm) to do.
>
> -Erik
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