From 190106c98e7e23ac838331fe199e8d07d6faf4b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 22:50:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] rephrased. -D writes a file, -b reads one.

---
 curl.1 | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/curl.1 b/curl.1
index b049ec19e1..fa505c0b1b 100644
--- a/curl.1
+++ b/curl.1
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ will make curl record incoming cookies too, which may be handy if you're using
 this in combination with the -L/--location option. The file format of the file
 to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or the netscape cookie file
 format.
+
+.B NOTE
+that the file specified with -b/--cookie is only used as input. No cookies
+will be stored in the file. To store cookies, save the HTTP headers to a file
+using -D/--dump-header!
 .IP "-B/--ftp-ascii"
 (FTP/LDAP)
 Use ASCII transfer when getting an FTP file or LDAP info. For FTP, this can
@@ -97,6 +102,10 @@ The contents of the file must already be url-encoded.
 (HTTP/FTP)
 Write the HTTP headers to this file. Write the FTP file info to this
 file if -I/--head is used.
+
+This option is handy to use when you want to store the cookies that a HTTP
+site sends to you. The cookies could then be read in a second curl invoke by
+using the -b/--cookie option!
 .IP "-e/--referer <URL>"
 (HTTP)
 Sends the "Referer Page" information to the HTTP server. Some badly
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