Commit bc8375a1 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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removed silly old -t usage from here, added some blurb about the "new" -t

that sets telnet options
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@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ UPLOADING

  Upload all data on stdin to a specified ftp site:

        curl -t ftp://ftp.upload.com/myfile
        curl -T - ftp://ftp.upload.com/myfile

  Upload data from a specified file, login with user and password:

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ UPLOADING

  Upload all data on stdin to a specified http site:

        curl -t http://www.upload.com/myfile
        curl -T - http://www.upload.com/myfile

  Note that the http server must've been configured to accept PUT before this
  can be done successfully.
@@ -756,6 +756,17 @@ TELNET
  You might want the -N/--no-buffer option to switch off the buffered output
  for slow connections or similar.

  Pass options to the telnet protocol negotiation, by using the -t option. To
  tell the server we use a vt100 terminal, try something like:

        curl -tTTYPE=vt100 telnet://remote.server.com

  Other interesting options for it -t include:

   - XDISPLOC=<X display> Sets the X display location.

   - NEW_ENV=<var,val> Sets an environment variable.

  NOTE: the telnet protocol does not specify any way to login with a specified
  user and password so curl can't do that automatically. To do that, you need
  to track when the login prompt is received and send the username and