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From: Wei Weng <wweng_at_kencast.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:09:36 -0400

Daniel Stenberg wrote:

>
> I did try to address the most obvious double negatives, so
> --no-keepalive is now the negative to --keepalive (which didn't
> previously exist) and both --eprt and --epsv are now recognized options
> to allow for --no-eprt and --no-epsv (that are supposed to be aliases
> for --disable-eprt and --disable-epsv but added to allow them to follow
> the same style). But yes, "--no-disable-eprt" actually should work...
>
> I'm sure I've missed some things in there since we had 126 options and a
> large portion of them are booleans!
>
> I added --remote-name-all, which is my sneaky way to finally offer a
> feature that's been asked for many times over the years:
>
> Starting now, you can add --remote-name-all in your .curlrc and then
> curl will default to -O'ing urls (also known as wget-style ;-O), and
> thus you must _undo_ -O if you want to specificly download to stdout!
> I'm not 100% sure how this is going to hurt, but I know lots of users
> will start doing things this way...
>
> I'm of course interested to hear if anyone experiences any problems with
> the command line options with this new concept applied.
>

Dear Daniel:

I can not build anything on this machine, so I can not check for sure.
But is this --no-OPTION_NAME feature official for next release of curl yet?

And what does the wget-style (curl will default to -O'ing urls) mean?

Thanks
Wei

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Received on 2008-08-11