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1.1     ! misho       1: Long: netrc
        !             2: Short: n
        !             3: Help: Must read .netrc for user name and password
        !             4: ---
        !             5: Makes curl scan the \fI.netrc\fP (\fI_netrc\fP on Windows) file in the user's
        !             6: home directory for login name and password. This is typically used for FTP on
        !             7: Unix. If used with HTTP, curl will enable user authentication. See
        !             8: \fInetrc(5)\fP \fIftp(1)\fP for details on the file format. Curl will not
        !             9: complain if that file doesn't have the right permissions (it should not be
        !            10: either world- or group-readable). The environment variable "HOME" is used to
        !            11: find the home directory.
        !            12: 
        !            13: A quick and very simple example of how to setup a \fI.netrc\fP to allow curl
        !            14: to FTP to the machine host.domain.com with user name \&'myself' and password
        !            15: \&'secret' should look similar to:
        !            16: 
        !            17: .B "machine host.domain.com login myself password secret"