Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

netpipes
     
         A package by Robert Forsman 
        to manipulate {BSD Unix} {TCP/IP} stream {sockets}.  The
        netpipes package makes TCP/IP streams usable in {shell
        scripts}.  It can also simplify {client-server} code by
        allowing the programmer to skip all the tedious programming
        related to sockets and concentrate on writing a
        filter/service.
     
        {Home (http://www.cis.ufl.edu/~thoth/netpipes/)}.
     
        (1996-10-03)