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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-05-09 07:07:13 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-05-09 07:07:13 +0000
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clarify on the curl name issue and that there may be other libcurl-based
tools that provide GUI
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-Updated: February 25, 2003 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
+Updated: May 9, 2003 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
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We spell it cURL or just curl. We pronounce it with an initial k sound:
[kurl].
+ NOTE: there are numerous sub-projects and related projects that also use the
+ word curl in the project names in various combinations, but you should take
+ notice that this FAQ is directed at the command-line tool named curl (and
+ libcurl the library), and may therefore not be valid for other curl
+ projects.
+
1.2 What is libcurl?
libcurl is a reliable and portable library which provides you with an easy
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better. We do however believe in a few rules when it comes to the future of
curl:
- * Curl is to remain a command line tool. If you want GUIs or fancy scripting
- capabilities, you're free to write another tool that uses libcurl and that
- offers this. There's no point in having a single tool that does every
- imaginable thing. That's also one of the great advantages of having the
- core of curl as a library.
+ * Curl -- the command line tool -- is to remain a non-graphical command line
+ tool. If you want GUIs or fancy scripting capabilities, you should look
+ for another tool that uses libcurl.
* We do not add things to curl that other small and available tools already
do very fine at the side. Curl's output is fine to pipe into another