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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
.\" nroff -man curl.1
.\" Written by Daniel Stenberg
.\"
-.TH curl 1 "15 March 2001" "Curl 7.7" "Curl Manual"
+.TH curl 1 "24 March 2001" "Curl 7.7" "Curl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl \- get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE, HTTP or
HTTPS syntax.
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to -F. If more than
one -d/--data option is used on the same command line, the data pieces
specified will be merged together with a separating &-letter. Thus, using '-d
name=daniel -d skill=lousy' would generate a post chunk that looks like
-'name=daniel&skill=lousy'.
+\&'name=daniel&skill=lousy'.
If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a file name to
read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from stdin. The
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ get attached in the post as a file upload, while the < makes a text field and
just get the contents for that text field from a file.
Example, to send your password file to the server, where
-'password' is the name of the form-field to which /etc/passwd will be the
+\&'password' is the name of the form-field to which /etc/passwd will be the
input:
.B curl
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ directory.
A quick and very simple example of how to setup a
.I .netrc
to allow curl to ftp to the machine host.domain.com with user name
-'myself' and password 'secret' should look similar to:
+\&'myself' and password 'secret' should look similar to:
.B "machine host.domain.com login myself password secret"