Commit 073ef0b3 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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clarify on the curl name issue and that there may be other libcurl-based

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:
  [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?

  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
  curl:

  * Curl is to remain a command line tool. If you want GUIs or fancy scripting
    capabilities, you're free to write another tool that uses libcurl and that
    offers this. There's no point in having a single tool that does every
    imaginable thing. That's also one of the great advantages of having the
    core of curl as a library.
  * Curl -- the command line tool -- is to remain a non-graphical command line
    tool. If you want GUIs or fancy scripting capabilities, you should look
    for another tool that uses libcurl.

  * 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