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authorMarco Bonetti <sid77@slackware.it>2010-08-14 16:55:18 -0400
committerdsomero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org>2010-08-14 16:55:18 -0400
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+tsocks' role is to allow these non SOCKS aware applications (e.g telnet, ssh,
+ftp etc) to use SOCKS without any modification. It does this by intercepting
+the calls that applications make to establish network connections and
+negotating them through a SOCKS server as necessary.