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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2001-01-22 08:42:00 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2001-01-22 08:42:00 +0000
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Added 5.5 the CURLOPT_FILE problem on win32, DeYoung provided it!
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-Updated: January 15, 2001 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.shtml)
+Updated: January 22, 2001 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.shtml)
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5.2 How can I receive all data into a large memory chunk?
5.3 How do I fetch multiple files with libcurl?
5.4 Does libcurl do Winsock initing on win32 systems?
+ 5.5 Does CURLOPT_FILE work on win32 ?
6. License Issues
6.1 I have a GPL program, can I use the libcurl library?
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use several different libraries and parts, and there's no reason for every
single library to do this.
+ 5.5 Does CURLOPT_FILE work on win32 ?
+
+ Yes, but you cannot open a FILE * and pass the pointer to a DLL and have
+ that DLL use the FILE *. You must use CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION as well to set a
+ function that writes the file, even if that simply writes the data to the
+ specified FILE*.
+
+ (provided by Joel DeYoung)
+
6. License Issues
NOTE: This section is now updated to concern curl 7.5.2 or later!