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-rw-r--r--packages/Symbian/readme.txt15
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/packages/Symbian/readme.txt b/packages/Symbian/readme.txt
index 1691741ad..5dc69e0ec 100644
--- a/packages/Symbian/readme.txt
+++ b/packages/Symbian/readme.txt
@@ -30,15 +30,14 @@ e.g. \epoc32\release\winscw\udeb\curl -- -v http://localhost/
Failure to do so may mean that some of your options won't be correctly
processed.
-Symbian OS does not provide for redirecting the standard I/O streams, so
-stdin always comes from the keyboard, stdout always goes to the
-console, and stderr goes to the epocwind.out file (on the emulator).
-The standard curl options -o, --stderr and --trace-ascii can be used to
+Symbian's ESHELL allows for redirecting stdin and stdout to files, but
+stderr goes to the epocwind.out file (on the emulator). The standard
+curl options -o, --stderr and --trace-ascii can be used to
redirect output to a file (or stdout) instead.
-P.I.P.S. doesn't inherit the current working directory at startup, so the
--O option probably won't work as expected, and giving the complete paths
-to files will be necessary.
+P.I.P.S. doesn't inherit the current working directory at startup from
+the shell, so relative path names are always relative to
+C:\Private\f0206442\.
P.I.P.S. provides no way to disable echoing of characters as they are
entered, so passwords typed in on the console will be visible. It also
@@ -78,4 +77,4 @@ files.
Dan Fandrich
dan@coneharvesters.com
-June 2008
+July 2008