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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"