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= socket =

== Availability and IPv6 support ==

|| '''Name''' || '''IPv6 support''' || '''Supported operating systems''' ||
|| [[http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/src/|socket]] || [[http://www.vermicelli.pasta.cs.uit.no/ipv6/software.html|yes ]] || UNIX, Linux, [[http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=socket|*BSD]] ||

== Description ==

The program Socket implements access to TCP sockets from shell level.  First written for the need to open a server socket and read and write  to the socket interactively for testing purposes, it quickly evolved  into a generic tool providing the socket interface for shell script  and interactive use.  

== Comments ==





== Usage information ==

== Categories ==

CategoryApps, CategoryAppssysutils

== Source of information ==

NetBSD package collection, ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/README-IPv6.html