Commit c9a6ab6d authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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curl.1: mention the unix for the progress meter

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@@ -98,7 +98,10 @@ specified on a single command line and cannot be used between separate curl
invokes.
.SH "PROGRESS METER"
curl normally displays a progress meter during operations, indicating the
amount of transferred data, transfer speeds and estimated time left, etc.
amount of transferred data, transfer speeds and estimated time left, etc. The
progress meter displays number of bytes and the speeds are in bytes per
second. The suffixes (K, M, G, P) are 1024 based. For example 1K is 1024
bytes. 1M is 1048576 bytes.

curl displays this data to the terminal by default, so if you invoke curl to
do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal, it