Patrick Smith's contributed docs improvements for when NLST is used by

curl...

diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 5fa130f079210f33c158de6c6d0734616bb95fdc..01b89fb501215295c53dcaec44474a0a1d4f8adc 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -329,6 +329,10 @@ Especially useful if you want to machine-parse the contents of an FTP
 directory since the normal directory view doesn't use a standard look
 or format.
 
+This option causes an FTP NLST command to be sent.  Some FTP servers
+list only files in their response to NLST; they do not include
+subdirectories and symbolic links.
+
 If this option is used twice, the second will again disable list only.
 .IP "-L/--location"
 (HTTP/HTTPS) If the server reports that the requested page has a different

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index c1c7c636ee18fff39964742235145b113efd322e..343b4592eed8e2f2565ebdcd8e0f56e767d34e0b 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -171,6 +171,10 @@ will imply this option.
 A non-zero parameter tells the library to just list the names of an ftp
 directory, instead of doing a full directory listing that would include file
 sizes, dates etc.
+
+This causes an FTP NLST command to be sent.  Beware that some FTP servers
+list only files in their response to NLST; they do not include
+subdirectories and symbolic links.
 .TP
 .B CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND
 A non-zero parameter tells the library to append to the remote file instead of