Patrick Smith's contributed docs improvements for when NLST is used by

curl...

docs/curl.1

@@ -329,6 +329,10 @@ Especially useful if you want to machine-parse the contents of an FTP
 directory since the normal directory view doesn't use a standard look
 or format.
 
+This option causes an FTP NLST command to be sent.  Some FTP servers
+list only files in their response to NLST; they do not include
+subdirectories and symbolic links.
+
 If this option is used twice, the second will again disable list only.
 .IP "-L/--location"
 (HTTP/HTTPS) If the server reports that the requested page has a different

docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3

@@ -171,6 +171,10 @@ will imply this option.
 A non-zero parameter tells the library to just list the names of an ftp
 directory, instead of doing a full directory listing that would include file
 sizes, dates etc.
+
+This causes an FTP NLST command to be sent.  Beware that some FTP servers
+list only files in their response to NLST; they do not include
+subdirectories and symbolic links.
 .TP
 .B CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND
 A non-zero parameter tells the library to append to the remote file instead of