>>>>> "Ivan" == Ivan Popov <pin_at_medic.chalmers.se> writes:

    Ivan> I would imagine a lookalike of netcat which talks rpc2 to
    Ivan> Coda servers,

    Ivan> May be such utility would be in fact useful?

I was going to say "no," because I remembered Greg Troxel's problems
with fragmentation and of course sftp is not stream-based.  But then I
remembered Greg Troxel's problems with fragmentation and of course
sftp is not stream-based :-), and it occurred to me that this (with a
little generalization to optionally report serial numbers and stuff)
would be a great tool for diagnosing that kind of problem, maybe.



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