Walter J. Mack's curl_free addition

3 files changed, 70 insertions, 53 deletions

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_escape.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_escape.3
index ba81303c5..395363e64 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_escape.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_escape.3
@@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
-.\" You can view this file with:
-.\" nroff -man [file]
-.\" $Id$
-.\"
-.TH curl_escape 3 "6 March 2002" "libcurl 7.9" "libcurl Manual"
-.SH NAME
-curl_escape - URL encodes the given string
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B #include <curl/curl.h>
-.sp
-.BI "char *curl_escape( char *" url ", int "length " );"
-.ad
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-This function will convert the given input string to an URL encoded string and
-return that as a new allocated string. All input characters that are not a-z,
-A-Z or 0-9 will be converted to their "URL escaped" version (%NN where NN is a
-two-digit hexadecimal number).
-
-If the 'length' argument is set to 0, curl_escape() will use strlen() on the
-input 'url' string to find out the size.
-
-You must free() the returned string when you're done with it.
-.SH RETURN VALUE
-A pointer to a zero terminated string or NULL if it failed.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.I curl_unescape(), RFC 2396
+.\" You can view this file with:

+.\" nroff -man [file]

+.\" $Id$

+.\"

+.TH curl_escape 3 "6 March 2002" "libcurl 7.9" "libcurl Manual"

+.SH NAME

+curl_escape - URL encodes the given string

+.SH SYNOPSIS

+.B #include <curl/curl.h>

+.sp

+.BI "char *curl_escape( char *" url ", int "length " );"

+.ad

+.SH DESCRIPTION

+This function will convert the given input string to an URL encoded string and

+return that as a new allocated string. All input characters that are not a-z,

+A-Z or 0-9 will be converted to their "URL escaped" version (%NN where NN is a

+two-digit hexadecimal number).

+

+If the 'length' argument is set to 0, curl_escape() will use strlen() on the

+input 'url' string to find out the size.

+

+You must curl_free() the returned string when you're done with it.

+.SH RETURN VALUE

+A pointer to a zero terminated string or NULL if it failed.

+.SH "SEE ALSO"

+.I curl_unescape(), curl_free(), RFC 2396

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_free.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_free.3
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..718b86e28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_free.3
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+.\" You can view this file with:
+.\" nroff -man [file]
+.\" $Id: 
+.\"
+.TH curl_free 3 "24 Sept 2002" "libcurl 7.10" "libcurl Manual"
+.SH NAME
+curl_free - reclaim memory that has been obtained through a libcurl call
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B #include <curl/curl.h>
+.sp
+.BI "void *curl_free( char *" ptr " );"
+.ad
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+curl_free reclaims memory that has been obtained through a libcurl call. 
+Use curl_free() instead of free() to avoid anomalies that can result from differences in memory management between your application and libcurl.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.I curl_unescape(), curl_free()
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_unescape.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_unescape.3
index 756ab45ac..5432d5e1b 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_unescape.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_unescape.3
@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
-.\" You can view this file with:
-.\" nroff -man [file]
-.\" $Id$
-.\"
-.TH curl_unescape 3 "22 March 2001" "libcurl 7.7" "libcurl Manual"
-.SH NAME
-curl_unescape - URL decodes the given string
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B #include <curl/curl.h>
-.sp
-.BI "char *curl_unescape( char *" url ", int "length " );"
-.ad
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-This function will convert the given URL encoded input string to a "plain
-string" and return that as a new allocated string. All input characters that
-are URL encoded (%XX where XX is a two-digit hexadecimal number, or +) will be
-converted to their plain text versions (up to a ? letter, no + letters to the
-right of a ? letter will be converted).
-
-If the 'length' argument is set to 0, curl_unescape() will use strlen() on the
-input 'url' string to find out the size.
-
-You must free() the returned string when you're done with it.
-.SH RETURN VALUE
-A pointer to a zero terminated string or NULL if it failed.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.I curl_escape(), RFC 2396
+.\" You can view this file with:

+.\" nroff -man [file]

+.\" $Id$

+.\"

+.TH curl_unescape 3 "22 March 2001" "libcurl 7.7" "libcurl Manual"

+.SH NAME

+curl_unescape - URL decodes the given string

+.SH SYNOPSIS

+.B #include <curl/curl.h>

+.sp

+.BI "char *curl_unescape( char *" url ", int "length " );"

+.ad

+.SH DESCRIPTION

+This function will convert the given URL encoded input string to a "plain

+string" and return that as a new allocated string. All input characters that

+are URL encoded (%XX where XX is a two-digit hexadecimal number, or +) will be

+converted to their plain text versions (up to a ? letter, no + letters to the

+right of a ? letter will be converted).

+

+If the 'length' argument is set to 0, curl_unescape() will use strlen() on the

+input 'url' string to find out the size.

+

+You must curl_free() the returned string when you're done with it.

+.SH RETURN VALUE

+A pointer to a zero terminated string or NULL if it failed.

+.SH "SEE ALSO"

+.I curl_escape(), curl_free(), RFC 2396