Goals of this project are full compatibility with the original nc 1.10 that is widely used, and portability. GNU Netcat should compile and work without changes on the following hosts:

* Linux (test host: alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu)
* FreeBSD (test host: i386-unknown-freebsd4.9)
* NetBSD (test host: i386-unknown-netbsdelf1.6.1)
* SunOS/Solaris (test host: sparc-sun-solaris2.9)
* MacOS X (test host: powerpc-apple-darwin6.8)

Other operating systems could be supported with minor source modifications, since the code has been written following the GNU coding standard conventions.