For testing, I needed to comment out a line in my
'%HOME/_netrc' file. Like:

#machine tablet-pc login foo password bar1
  machine tablet-pc login foo password bar2

I was surprised to see that curl/libcurl even with
this edit, a command like 'curl ftp://tablet-pc ..' would
send the password "bar1".

I.e. lib/netc.c ignores the comment char '#'! Can this
please be fixed? Something like:

--- a/netrc.c 2016-11-22 14:33:03
+++ b/netrc.c 2017-08-02 11:27:18
@@ -119,6 +119,8 @@

      while(!done && fgets(netrcbuffer, netrcbuffsize, file)) {
        tok=strtok_r(netrcbuffer, " \t\n", &tok_buf);
+ if (tok && *tok == '#')
+ continue;
        while(!done && tok) {

BTW.
It's also confusing that '%HOME%/.netrc' is NOT
supported on Windows. An old issue on Win-9x perhaps?
It would be great that '%HOME/_netrc' only said:
   include %HOME/.netrc

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