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Commit a20da552 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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curl.1: clarify --limit-rate's effect on both directions

Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1414
Reported-by: teo8976
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......@@ -877,9 +877,10 @@ of what your command-line operation does!
If this option is used several times, the last given file name will be
used. (Added in 7.16.1)
.IP "--limit-rate <speed>"
Specify the maximum transfer rate you want curl to use. This feature is useful
if you have a limited pipe and you'd like your transfer not to use your entire
bandwidth.
Specify the maximum transfer rate you want curl to use - for both downloads
and uploads. This feature is useful if you have a limited pipe and you'd like
your transfer not to use your entire bandwidth. To make it slower than it
otherwise would be.
The given speed is measured in bytes/second, unless a suffix is appended.
Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the number as kilobytes, 'm' or M' makes it
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