[Slackbuilds-users] ncp?

[David Chmelik]

On 5/13/25 8:17 PM, B. Watson wrote:
> Does anyone use ncp?
Well, I'm interested!

> It's my build, it looked like something I'd find useful, but I've
> never really used it... tested it the other day and it doesn't
> work. At one point it did.
>
> Someone want to see if you can duplicate my problem?
>
> Install ncp on two Slackware boxes that live on the same LAN. Read
> "man ncp" and try to copy a file from one box to another via ncp. I
> don't think I'm doing it wrong...
Installed; want try a.s.a.p.  I've several Slackware computers; what 
about family's (entirely trusted, as is LAN) Devuan PCs (may switch 
those to Slackware/SalixOS, Gentoo, or FreeBSD/GhostBSD)?  Of course, 
they have rsh/rcp/rexec, telnet, but I'm unsure of (dis)advantages of 
each these three (never mind ssh).  Strangely, rcp/rsh/rexec worked on 
Devuan-/Debian-/Ubuntu-based, but not on Slackware.

> Note that ncp doesn't use /etc/hosts, so you probably have to use the
> IP address of the server, in the command you type on the client.
Would be nice if ncp could, like rcp: why I hope to get rsh/rcp/rexec 
working (wondering what's rcp's difference otherwise?).

> You can try it with one box too, use 127.0.0.1 (it doesn't like the
> hostname "localhost").
>
> If nobody uses this, and if I can't fix it before my attention span
> runs out, I'm going to remove the package from the repo.
On 5/13/25 11:13 PM, B. Watson wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2025, B. Watson wrote:
>> Install ncp on two Slackware boxes that live on the same LAN. Read
>> "man ncp" and try to copy a file from one box to another via ncp. I
>> don't think I'm doing it wrong...
>
> OK, got a handle on this now. The ncp command doesn't work... but the
> npush and npoll commands do. I'll add a note to the README.
Is it still useful or need to wait for fix?

>> Does anyone use ncp?
>
> This question still stands. Does anyone use this?
I've been sad to see a large amount of software removed from SBo over 
years that some still is useful.