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.\" * $Id$
.\" **************************************************************************
.\"
-.TH curl 1 "10 Nov 2005" "Curl 7.15.1" "Curl Manual"
+.TH curl 1 "24 Nov 2005" "Curl 7.15.1" "Curl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl \- transfer a URL
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -927,10 +927,18 @@ If this option is used several times, each occurrence will toggle it on/off.
Specify user and password to use for server authentication. Overrides
\fI-n/--netrc\fP and \fI--netrc-optional\fP.
+If you use an SSPI-enabled curl binary and do NTLM autentication, you can
+force curl to pick up the user name and password from your environment by
+simply specifying a single colon with this option: "-u :".
+
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 you use an SSPI-enabled curl binary and do NTLM autentication, you can
+force curl to pick up the user name and password from your environment by
+simply specifying a single colon with this option: "-U :".
+
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 want to specify