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The Jetcat suite of tools (Feed, Piper and Eat) has reached it initial milestone. The suite is now essentially functionally complete, but terse and bare-boned.

The tools are intended to be a Java-based equivalent of the "Netcat" utility that provides stream-redirection to and from network sockets.

The three tools in Jetcat are:
* Feed - Reads from one of a named file, stdin or an internally generated pseudorandom byte sequence and writes this to stdout at a user-specified blocking and speed.
* Piper - Reads-from and writes-to any pair of user-specified streams from: stdin/out, named files, udp unicast sockets, udp multicast sockets or tcp sockets.
* Eat - Reads from stdin and prints the 5 and 30-second moving-average of determined data rate.