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INSTALL: Updated MSVC 6 caveats

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To use an up to date download link as well as remove duplicate
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MSVC 6 caveats
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If you use MSVC 6 it is required that you use the February 2003 edition PSDK:
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm
If you use MSVC 6 it is required that you use the February 2003 edition of
the 'Platform SDK' which can be downloaded from:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12261
Building any software with MSVC 6 without having PSDK installed is just
asking for trouble down the road once you have released it, you might notice
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choice of static vs dynamic runtime and third party libraries. Anyone using
software built in such way will at some point regret having done so.
When someone uses MSVC 6 without PSDK he is using a compiler back from 1998.
If the compiler has been updated with the installation of a service pack as
those mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194022 the compiler can be
safely used to read source code, translate and make it object code.
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header files and libraries with bugs and security issues which have already
been addressed and fixed long time ago.
In order to make use of the updated system headers and fixed libraries
for MSVC 6, it is required that 'Platform SDK', PSDK from now onwards,
is installed. The specific PSDK that must be installed for MSVC 6 is the
February 2003 edition, which is the latest one supporting the MSVC 6 compiler,
this PSDK is also known as 'Windows Server 2003 PSDK' and can be downloaded
from http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm
So, building curl and libcurl with MSVC 6 without PSDK is absolutely
discouraged for the benefit of anyone using software built in such
environment. And it will not be supported in any way, as we could just