Existing users, 
cURL
Command-line file transfer tool.
Version: 7.19.7
Clarus, it's curl.…
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: sooloo Thursday, August 08 2002 @ 11:15 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Unspecified
Clarus, it's curl. Yes, it's command line only. Copy the URL you want to download to the clipboard, open Terminal.app, type curl -O, hit the spacebar, hit Cmd-V, hit return. The file will shortly be in your home directory. It's part of the standard OSX install (version 7.7.2 on my installation of 10.1.5) so you only need this if you're absolutely obsessive about having the latest version of everything.
Command line installation - mfwills
This download instruction places the tar.gz file in your home directory, yes, but it still has to be expanded/unarchived before you execute the terminal command as described in the readme.COMPLETE instructions are in order, I think, both here and in the readme.
Far too much is left to figure out on one's own. The email address in the readme is useless (why bother including it?), because Marius Schamschula doesn't respond to questions, and it costs $25 to join the Forum.
I have been using cURL a lot with FileMaker and the zippShell plugin, so I am interested in what's going on, but this whole thing could get back to being a little more Mac-like, if only in the up-front support we receive.
We may be stuck with the command-line thing for things like cURL, but we seem to have become more like Winduhs prisoners in the amount of intuitive instruction we get. Please stop treating us like we already know what to do.
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