netcat strange behaviour

[shibbsd at spymac.com]

My netcat is the one from the official FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE s the system here now to check the exact version; I'll check it and post it
to the maillist a.s.a.p. (or look in web-cvs).

As of telnet, it runs o.k., but I wanted to use netcat in a shell script... :(
Besides, that is what netcat is designed for, is it not?

PS. sorry, as of 5.4-RELEASE I meant 5.4-RC2

Kuba