Source: netpipes Section: net Priority: optional Maintainer: Mats Erik Andersson Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 7.0.50~) Standards-Version: 3.9.3 Homepage: http://web.purplefrog.com/~thoth/netpipes/ Package: netpipes Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Recommends: timelimit Suggests: psmisc Description: manipulate BSD TCP/IP stream sockets The netpipes package makes TCP/IP streams usable in shell scripts. It can also simplify client/server code by allowing the programmer to skip all the tedious programming bits related to sockets and concentrate on writing a filter, or other service.