changelog of the current development status, as one or more of these problems
may have been fixed since this was written!
-92. curl tool 7.47.1 in Windows will not --output to any device unless the
- device prefix is used. To send output to a device that has a reserved dos
- device name use the Windows device prefix \\.\ (eg: --output \\.\NUL) or use
- the redirection operator at the end of your curl command (eg: > NUL).
- The next release of curl will support --output in Windows to reserved device
- names without the device prefix for backwards compatibility.
+92. curl tool 7.47.1 in Windows will not --output to literal paths \\?\ or to
+ reserved dos device names unless the device prefix \\.\ is used. To send
+ output to a device that has a reserved dos device name you can use the
+ Windows device prefix (eg: --output \\.\NUL). You can also use the
+ redirection operator to send output to a literal path or a reserved device
+ name (eg: > NUL).
+ The next release of curl will support --output in Windows to literal paths
+ and to reserved device names without the device prefix.
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/c3aac48
+ https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/4fc80f3
91. "curl_easy_perform hangs with imap and PolarSSL"
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/334