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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > > Can I delete libcurl.a?
> >
> > Yes. You will then be unable to compile static binaries with libcurl,
> > but very few people actually want to be able to do that.
>
> I can't even figure out how to use curl.

Curl works something like wget but can also upload.  The package from 
linuxpackages for SW81 has dependencies libssl.so.0 and libcrypto.so.0. 
Linuxpackage has openssl-solibs-0.97-i386-1.tgz package for SW81, 840K 
download, produces 807K libsso.0.91 and 987K libcrypto.0.97 which need to 
be symlinked.  (Installing the package does this and also makes more 
files).  This is a lot bigger than busybox wget and ftpput and had better 
be worth the space and time.

Slackware 8.1 also posted some later versions of openssl but they are 
older than this (0.9.6).

There are various curl command-line options for binary or ascii, for 
downloading entire directories and creating them locally, for doing file 
transfer via telnet.  You can download or upload multiple files [1-100] 
and I hope also *.   (I could also simply gzip into one big file first).

curl ftp://username:password AT ftp.freeshell.org --limit-rate 31200  -T 
filename.jpg

Or some speed slower than this - 2000 bytes for instance, and experiment 
to get the best results (assuming curl indicates transfer speed as a 
default.

-T could be changed to --upload-file   Is the order of options important?

I could also upload via http to my html directory.

I found the above via google - is it correct for uploading a jpg to my 
home directory at freeshell (sdf)?

The man pages don't make any sense to me, they are full of
CURLOPT_PASSWDDATA - is this something you use when rewriting the source 
code?

I don't see any way to use curl with SMTP but I don't mind mailing via 
freeshell/sdf if it will let me ftp faster than the usual 1.4K upload to 
there.  Even downloads via FTP rarely exceed 2K/sec and often slow 
down to 500 bytes/sec.

Sindi