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Hello,

I am trying to get started with CURL. I am running windows vista and have xampp installed. I downloaded the curl zip and extracted this but the curl executable when run just does a quick flash of a command promp then disappears. where am I going wrong on this curl install?

+2  A: 

curl is not a program with a graphical interface : it's a command-line tool.

This means you'll have to :

  • open a command-line window
  • navigate, with the cd command, to the directory in which curl.exe is
  • and, then, call curl.exe, passing it some parameters on the command line.
Pascal MARTIN
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