March 20th, 2018, Daniel Stenberg notes twenty years of his flexible, multi-protocol, text-based utility, curl. It is a very common client-side file transfer utility. The associated development libraries, libcurl are a couple of years younger.
curl itself and components from libcurl are found nearly everywhere these days. Due to such widespread use, it is hard to be precise with usage numbers, but conservative estimates suggest billions of people every day are using it, though mostly under the hood several layers down inside devices they own. It is the Internet transfer utility of choice for thousands of software applications. It is found in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, settop boxes, and media players for starters.
A detailed, free-of-charge, ebook, Everything curl, covers basically everything there is to know about curl, libcurl, and the associated project.
Earlier on SN:
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 22 2018, @09:50AM (1 child)
I'm well aware of the curl and wget aliases; there was a SoylentNews story about them in August of 2016: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/08/23/0317252 [soylentnews.org]
Notice that it says nothing about tar. Your Github links are both dated August 2016; nothing was said there about tar. What's to be called the Spring Creators Update was made available for testing in December of 2017 and is expected to be generally available next month.
> M$ responded not only with a bureacratic feint, it is now trying to shit in the RFC pool.
You're citing a discussion on Github that began and ended in August of 2016.
Your misinformation is out of date.
(Score: 3, Informative) by canopic jug on Thursday March 22 2018, @05:36PM
Go to the github links shown above today and notice that there has been no action from M$ part to fix the problem even now in 2018. Press refresh on your browser [imgur.com] and notice that the information still stands: no action has been taken from M$ to resolve the problem.
It is your tactics which are out of date.
It is a long-standing tactic for M$ shills to point to old but still relevant problems and then assert that they are no longer true due to the passage of time.
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