my nroff 1.18.1 complained the URL as it contains a nroff combo somehow

and when I modified it slightly the warning dissappeared...

diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index f37e03f25bda494720a43403219eb28c52bb1132..f7ea1595431f5c0f7387d16498235d331059ea2e 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -37,9 +37,10 @@ or you can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in:
  ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt    (with leading zeros)
  ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt
 
-No nesting of the sequences is supported at the moment:
+No nesting of the sequences is supported at the moment, but you can use
+several ones next to each other:
 
- http://www.any.org/archive[1996-1999]/volume[1-4]part{a,b,c,index}.html
+ http://any.org/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html
 
 You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They will be fetched
 in a sequential manner in the specified order.