On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Wayne Haigh wrote:

> curl ftp://ftp4.nero.com/nero551054.exe
>
> I accidentally omitted the -O switch to download the binary file. This
> caused the return data to be output to the screen (as expected).
>
> Trying to stop the display by closing the window or with task manager was
> not possible. All attempts to stop the task failed (even unplugging the
> network connection).
>
> I can re-produce this every time (with different sites and files, not just
> the one above) and the only solution is to re-boot the machine.

Can't you just wait for the download to finish?

> Have I found a bug..? or missing something in my set-up..?

I would say that the bug is in Windows. curl does nothing odd or spectacular
in this case, it just writes all the downloaded data to stdout. Your operating
system should be possible to stop that.

In fact, I don't even know what I would do to "fix" this even if I wanted, as
I don't know any faults in curl (that cause this).

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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