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clarify on the curl name issue and that there may be other libcurl-based

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tools that provide GUI
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Updated: February 25, 2003 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) Updated: May 9, 2003 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
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We spell it cURL or just curl. We pronounce it with an initial k sound: We spell it cURL or just curl. We pronounce it with an initial k sound:
[kurl]. [kurl].
NOTE: there are numerous sub-projects and related projects that also use the
word curl in the project names in various combinations, but you should take
notice that this FAQ is directed at the command-line tool named curl (and
libcurl the library), and may therefore not be valid for other curl
projects.
1.2 What is libcurl? 1.2 What is libcurl?
libcurl is a reliable and portable library which provides you with an easy libcurl is a reliable and portable library which provides you with an easy
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better. We do however believe in a few rules when it comes to the future of better. We do however believe in a few rules when it comes to the future of
curl: curl:
* Curl is to remain a command line tool. If you want GUIs or fancy scripting * Curl -- the command line tool -- is to remain a non-graphical command line
capabilities, you're free to write another tool that uses libcurl and that tool. If you want GUIs or fancy scripting capabilities, you should look
offers this. There's no point in having a single tool that does every for another tool that uses libcurl.
imaginable thing. That's also one of the great advantages of having the
core of curl as a library.
* We do not add things to curl that other small and available tools already * We do not add things to curl that other small and available tools already
do very fine at the side. Curl's output is fine to pipe into another do very fine at the side. Curl's output is fine to pipe into another