From: Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_euronet.nl)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 00:03:44 PST
on 28-01-2003 6:44, Fisher, Patrick at patrick.m.fisher_at_wamu.net wrote:
>>> Can you tell me how you run this, is it a command-line app?
>> Yep, it's command line. The command:
>> man curl
> It is extremely annoying when a person familiar with Unix gives a terse
> (and unusable) response as follows (below). It took me quite awhile,
> many years ago, to figure out how to use Unix because every Unix person
> told me to use the man pages. Which are pretty unhelpful.
Ironically Patrick's comment made go into Terminal, past 'man curl' and
press return, and lo and behold, a full explanation.
Guess Patrick was right, Unix is a strange world...
Robert Benschop
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