On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Bob Barry wrote:

> on two Debian systems, both running 7.15.1, I can't get curl to use standard
> output. I removed the deb package from one of the Debian systems, and built
> curl from source with a vanilla ".configure; make; make install", and the
> result works the same as the deb package. I've read the configure options,
> and can't spot one that should disable standard output. I've read the
> Gentoo ebuild, and don't see any patches or unusual options there. The deb
> systems can write output to file (-o <file>) but they don't accept "-o -".
> Can anyone tell me why?

I can only tell you that I can do that on the debian systems I've tried it on.
They all write to stdout without -o and with "-o -".

Do these systems by any chance have a curl config file that sets -o or -O or
something?

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