On Mar 10, 13:15, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Tor Arntsen wrote:
>
>> Maybe it could also be added that SGI and IBM include curl with their IRIX
>> and AIX operating systems respectively, on their freeware CDs (part of the
>> standard OS package)? Maybe there are even more OS's out there bundling
>> curl, but I just happen to know about irix and aix.
>
>Aha! I wasn't aware of this. I changed the phrasing on the front page and I've
>included AIX and IRIX in that osdistribs table. Do you know from which OS
>versions/packages they started to include curl?

SGI IRIX: 6.5
IBM AIX: 5L (a generic name covering at least all 5.1 and 5.2 versions afaik.)

On IRIX they install in /usr/freeware, on AIX in /opt/freeware, however the
latter also sets up a lot of symlinks so that lots of the software (including
the curl library) appear in the 'standard' directories after install.

SGI calls it 'freeware' while IBM calls it 'Toolbox'.
The software is also available online, see http://freeware.sgi.com
and ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/FAQ.html
for more info.

The IBM freeware site (as well as the Toolbox CD) has curl versions that
install on AIX 4.3 as well, but AIX 4.3 didn't bundle an actual Toolbox CD.

(As soon as 7.11.1 is out I'm going to try to nudge IBM into updating their
rather dated curl version (7.9.3), so that I can tell my customer to just
grab the new version and rebuild our software with it when they need large
file support. I haven't sent any entry to that 'companies using curl' page
yet, but yes we use it. I'll send an entry if/when I get a go from management.)

-Tor
Received on 2004-03-10