OT: netcat for linux...

[John Esak]

I haven't yet looked anywhere... before I do.  Does anyone know where to get
the netcat stuff for linux distribs?  I'm hoping it's just a source file I
can compile? I want to put it on my PDA which runs a Debian derived o/s with
an ARM chip I think.  Anyway, it mostly runs on Open Embedded stuff... and
Python apps, which is just so cool... it does all music, with synchingn to
my PC, and all address book, contacts, calendar also synching to the Outlook
stuff I must use. it has a beautiful word processor, full instant book
retrieval from the web (bookshare.org), It has wireless and bluetooth... and
a 30Gb drive!  Plus it takes a mini-SD chip for extra removable storage.
The thing browses the net with dead simple controls.  I can jump into
console mode at the touch of a button... and it does all this stuff
headless!  Too amazingly cool.

Tony Ryder got me this thing for helping him with a big project down in
Oz... and it is slowly changing my life around. If anyone wants to see the
thing, it can be found at www.levelstar.com. They call it an Icon... and a
young blind guy named Mark, who I met in Atlanta when I bought the thing,
designed it. Wow! is all I can say.

But, back to the netcat... I would like to make it work on the Icon, so if
anyone knows where it lives... let me know.

John Esak

P.S. - Incidentally, the Icon has a regular 10 key keypad that you can do
the AAA=C thing on or it can use Braille characters  which they have
enhanced into a new thing called "Thumb Braille"... I can get any letter or
character using one or two thumbs. Since I already know Braille, I can input
stuff *way* faster than anyone doing the AAA=C thing. Eat dirt, you teen-age
SMS freaks. :-)

Also, there is a small, battery powered, full keyboard that the thing slides
into which I'm waiting for... it will be ot soon... making this thing one
hell of a portable complete computer for on the go folks who don't need to
see what they are typing and reading. Amazing. (Don't get me wrong, I still
hate not being able to see, but this makes it a whole lot easier.)

Oh yes, coming soon... GPS and cell phone capability for the Icon.

I know I topic drifted within my own message... the netcat stuff....?