Commit 9fe920cd authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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made the -C more correct and detailed

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.\" nroff -man curl.1
.\" Written by Daniel Stenberg
.\"
.TH curl 1 "8 Nov 2001" "Curl 7.9.1" "Curl Manual"
.TH curl 1 "26 Nov 2001" "Curl 7.9.1" "Curl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl \- get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE, HTTP or
HTTPS syntax.
@@ -117,13 +117,13 @@ be written to stdout. (Option added in curl 7.9)
If this option is used several times, the last specfied file name will be
used.
.IP "-C/--continue-at <offset>"
Continue/Resume a previous file transfer at the given offset. The
given offset is the exact number of bytes that will be skipped
counted from the beginning of the source file before it is transfered
to the destination.
If used with uploads, the ftp server command SIZE will not be used by
curl. Upload resume is for FTP only.
HTTP resume is only possible with HTTP/1.1 or later servers.
Continue/Resume a previous file transfer at the given offset. The given offset
is the exact number of bytes that will be skipped counted from the beginning
of the source file before it is transfered to the destination.  If used with
uploads, the ftp server command SIZE will not be used by curl.

Use "-C -" to tell curl to automatically find out where/how to resume the
transfer. It then uses the given output/input files to figure that out.

If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-d/--data <data>"