using nc as client

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 08:25:36AM -0700, Wendell Turner wrote:

I'm not allowed to compile anything on the client host, but
would like to run a xymon/bb client there.

It appears that I can use netcat to send plain text, as in:

Nevermind.  It turns out that the ISP had an old version of
nc that didn't work very well.  I switched the script over
to python and it works fine.

Wendell