minor corrections

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index f675dcc1b..e4fb043a8 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .\" nroff -man curl.1
 .\" Written by Daniel Stenberg
 .\"
-.TH curl 1 "24 March 2001" "Curl 7.7" "Curl Manual"
+.TH curl 1 "20 April 2001" "Curl 7.7.2" "Curl Manual"
 .SH NAME
 curl \- get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE, HTTP or
 HTTPS syntax.
@@ -94,11 +94,12 @@ If this option is used twice, the second one will disable ASCII usage.
 .IP "--connect-timeout <seconds>"
 Maximum time in seconds that you allow the connection to the server to take.
 This only limits the connection phase, once curl has connected this option is
-of no more use. This option doesn't work in win32 systems.  See also the
+of no more use. This option didn't work in win32 systems until 7.7.2.  See
+also the
 .I "--max-time"
 option.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-c/--continue"
 .B Deprecated. Use '-C -' instead.
 Continue/Resume a previous file transfer. This instructs curl to
@@ -117,7 +118,7 @@ If used with uploads, the ftp server command SIZE will not be used by
 curl. Upload resume is for FTP only.
 HTTP resume is only possible with HTTP/1.1 or later servers.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-d/--data <data>"
 (HTTP) Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server, in a way
 that can emulate as if a user has filled in a HTML form and pressed the submit
@@ -139,12 +140,12 @@ To post data purely binary, you should instead use the --data-binary option.
 
 -d/--data is the same as --data-ascii.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the ones following the first will
+If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will
 append data.
 .IP "--data-ascii <data>"
 (HTTP) This is an alias for the -d/--data option.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the ones following the first will
+If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will
 append data.
 .IP "--data-binary <data>"
 (HTTP) This posts data in a similar manner as --data-ascii does, although when
@@ -152,9 +153,9 @@ using this option the entire context of the posted data is kept as-is. If you
 want to post a binary file without the strip-newlines feature of the
 --data-ascii option, this is for you.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the ones following the first will
+If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will
 append data.
 .IP "-D/--dump-header <file>"
 (HTTP/FTP)
@@ -165,7 +166,7 @@ This option is handy to use when you want to store the cookies that a HTTP
 site sends to you. The cookies could then be read in a second curl invoke by
 using the -b/--cookie option!
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-e/--referer <URL>"
 (HTTP) Sends the "Referer Page" information to the HTTP server. This can also
 be set with the -H/--header flag of course.  When used with
@@ -174,7 +175,7 @@ you can append ";auto" to the referer URL to make curl automatically set the
 previous URL when it follows a Location: header. The ";auto" string can be
 used alone, even if you don't set an initial referer.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "--egd-file <file>"
 (HTTPS) Specify the path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon socket. The
 socket is used to seed the random engine for SSL connections. See also the
@@ -188,12 +189,12 @@ If the optional password isn't specified, it will be queried for on
 the terminal. Note that this certificate is the private key and the private
 certificate concatenated!
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "--cacert <CA certificate>"
 (HTTPS) Tells curl to use the specified certificate file to verify the
 peer. The certificate must be in PEM format.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-f/--fail"
 (HTTP)
 Fail silently (no output at all) on server errors. This is mostly done
@@ -256,7 +257,7 @@ name, IP address or host name. An example could look like:
 
 .B "curl --interface eth0:1 http://www.netscape.com/"
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-I/--head"
 (HTTP/FTP)
 Fetch the HTTP-header only! HTTP-servers feature the command HEAD
@@ -269,7 +270,7 @@ If this option is used twice, the second will again disable header only.
 should be one of 'clear', 'safe', 'confidential' or 'private'. Should you use
 a level that is not one of these, 'private' will instead be used.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-K/--config <config file>"
 Specify which config file to read curl arguments from. The config file is a
 text file in which command line arguments can be written which then will be
@@ -307,7 +308,7 @@ See also the
 .I "--connect-timeout"
 option.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-M/--manual"
 Manual. Display the huge help text.
 .IP "-n/--netrc"
@@ -385,7 +386,7 @@ i.e "my.host.domain" to specify machine
 (any single-letter string) to make it pick the machine's default
 .RE
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-q"
 If used as the first parameter on the command line, the
 .I $HOME/.curlrc
@@ -444,7 +445,7 @@ document.
 FTP range downloads only support the simple syntax 'start-stop' (optionally
 with one of the numbers omitted). It depends on the non-RFC command SIZE.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-s/--silent"
 Silent mode. Don't show progress meter or error messages.  Makes
 Curl mute.
@@ -471,18 +472,18 @@ think that your last directory name is the remote file name to
 use. That will most likely cause the upload operation to fail. If
 this is used on a http(s) server, the PUT command will be used.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-u/--user <user:password>"
 Specify user and password to use when fetching. See README.curl for detailed
 examples of how to use this. If no password is specified, curl will
 ask for it interactively.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-U/--proxy-user <user:password>"
 Specify user and password to use for Proxy authentication. If no
 password is specified, curl will ask for it interactively.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "--url <URL>"
 Specify a URL to fetch. This option is mostly handy when you wanna specify
 URL(s) in a config file.
@@ -565,12 +566,12 @@ The average download speed that curl measured for the complete download.
 The average upload speed that curl measured for the complete upload.
 .RE
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-x/--proxy <proxyhost[:port]>"
 Use specified proxy. If the port number is not specified, it is assumed at
 port 1080.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-X/--request <command>"
 (HTTP)
 Specifies a custom request to use when communicating with the HTTP server.
@@ -581,19 +582,19 @@ HTTP 1.1 specification for details and explanations.
 Specifies a custom FTP command to use instead of LIST when doing file lists
 with ftp.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-y/--speed-time <time>"
 If a download is slower than speed-limit bytes per second during a speed-time
 period, the download gets aborted. If speed-time is used, the default
 speed-limit will be 1 unless set with -y.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-Y/--speed-limit <speed>"
 If a download is slower than this given speed, in bytes per second, for
 speed-time seconds it gets aborted. speed-time is set with -Y and is 30 if
 not set.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-z/--time-cond <date expression>"
 (HTTP)
 Request to get a file that has been modified later than the given time and
@@ -609,7 +610,7 @@ Start the date expression with a dash (-) to make it request for a document
 that is older than the given date/time, default is a document that is newer
 than the specified date/time.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-3/--sslv3"
 (HTTPS)
 Forces curl to use SSL version 3 when negotiating with a remote SSL server.
@@ -630,7 +631,7 @@ Redirect all writes to stderr to the specified file instead. If the file name
 is a plain '-', it is instead written to stdout. This option has no point when
 you're using a shell with decent redirecting capabilities.
 
-If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
+If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .SH FILES
 .I ~/.curlrc
 .RS