From bc8375a1e8fe8268de12ab1f821ed4ab6130c154 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:09:08 +0000 Subject: removed silly old -t usage from here, added some blurb about the "new" -t that sets telnet options --- docs/MANUAL | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/MANUAL') diff --git a/docs/MANUAL b/docs/MANUAL index cffaad158..23e82ff25 100644 --- a/docs/MANUAL +++ b/docs/MANUAL @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ UPLOADING Upload all data on stdin to a specified ftp site: - curl -t ftp://ftp.upload.com/myfile + curl -T - ftp://ftp.upload.com/myfile Upload data from a specified file, login with user and password: @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ UPLOADING Upload all data on stdin to a specified http site: - curl -t http://www.upload.com/myfile + curl -T - http://www.upload.com/myfile Note that the http server must've been configured to accept PUT before this can be done successfully. @@ -756,6 +756,17 @@ TELNET You might want the -N/--no-buffer option to switch off the buffered output for slow connections or similar. + Pass options to the telnet protocol negotiation, by using the -t option. To + tell the server we use a vt100 terminal, try something like: + + curl -tTTYPE=vt100 telnet://remote.server.com + + Other interesting options for it -t include: + + - XDISPLOC= Sets the X display location. + + - NEW_ENV= Sets an environment variable. + NOTE: the telnet protocol does not specify any way to login with a specified user and password so curl can't do that automatically. To do that, you need to track when the login prompt is received and send the username and -- cgit v1.2.3