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RE: getting curl aborted, what do i do wrong

From: gene golub <gene_golub_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 20:16:54 -0400

Yes, i ran it from Korn port for Windows MKS Tools which i use.

But i tried it on cmd windows, and i get a different problem.

I have discribed it in previous mail to forum.

 

Thank you, Gene
 
> Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:21:44 +0200
> Subject: Re: getting curl aborted, what do i do wrong
> From: esiotrot_at_gmail.com
> To: curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se
> CC: curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 May 2009, gene golub wrote:
> >
> >> I am new curl user.
> >
> > It seems you're looking for the curl-users mailing list then! I'm cc'ing my
> > response over to that list.
> >
> >> C:/curl>./curl http://www.netscape.com/
> >> [1] + Done(134) ./curl http://www.netscape.com/
> >> 2068 Abort ./curl
> >
> > Wow. I've never seen anything like it. I don't even know what it means...
>
> Looks like a mixture of Unix and Windows.
>
> The prompt looks like a normal command.com or cmd.exe prompt, except
> that the slash is wrong.
>
> Using ./ in front of the command name will not work on Windows as far
> as I know. Using a backslash instead (i.e. .\curl http://...) would
> work, but is not something Windows people are likely to do.
>
> What platform is this? Windows? Which version? With Cygwin or MSYS
> or something similar? Or is it e.g. bash on Linux with PS1 set to
> "C:\w>"?
>
> The "[1] + Done" bit looks like something that might happen if you
> have ampersands in the URL, so that "curl http://start/of/url?a=1&"
> gets run in the background and then the shell tries to run
> "restOfUrl=2" as a shell command, which fails.
>
> Is http://www.netscape.com/ really the URL you are using?
>
> --
> Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com>
Received on 2009-05-06