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+++ b/docs/INSTALL
@@ -6,14 +6,13 @@
How To Compile
-Curl has been compiled and built on numerous different operating systems.
+Installing Binary Packages
+==========================
-Most systems build curl the same way (unix-style). Continue reading below for
-more details if you're one of them.
-
-If you're using Windows (95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP or similar), VMS, RISC OS or OS/2
-or cross-compile, you should continue reading from one the paragraphs further
-down.
+ Lots of people download binary distributions of curl and libcurl. This
+ document does not describe how to install curl or libcurl using such a
+ binary package. This document describes how to compile, build and install
+ curl and libcurl from source code.
UNIX
====
@@ -290,8 +289,6 @@ VMS
===
(The VMS section is in whole contributed by the friendly Nico Baggus)
- This is the first attempt at porting cURL to VMS.
-
Curl seems to work with FTP & HTTP other protocols are not tested. (the
perl http/ftp testing server supplied as testing too cannot work on VMS
because vms has no concept of fork(). [ I tried to give it a whack, but
@@ -300,7 +297,7 @@ VMS
SSL stuff has not been ported.
Telnet has about the same issues as for Win32. When the changes for Win32
- are clear maybe they'l work for VMS too. The basic problem is that select
+ are clear maybe they'll work for VMS too. The basic problem is that select
ONLY works for sockets.
Marked instances of fopen/[f]stat that might become a problem, especially
@@ -520,7 +517,3 @@ OpenLDAP
http://www.openldap.org
- You need to install it with shared libraries, which is enabled when running
- the ldap configure script with "--enable-shared". With my linux 2.0.36
- kernel I also had to disable using threads (with --without-threads),
- because the configure script couldn't figure out my system.