On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 02:13:33PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
To name three real uses I've made of it recently: to check what a
remote sshd banners as, to check what an RFB server banners as, and (in
conjunction with script(1) to capture the output of a one-off server
set up to transfer a text file (this being the use case I had for it on
the Pi 3).
You might find netcat useful. Not sure if/which distribution has it by
default.
/P