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+README.win32
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+  Read the README file first.
+
+  Curl has been compiled, built and run on all sorts of Windows and win32
+  systems. While not being the main develop target, a fair share of curl users
+  are win32-based.
+
+  The unix-style man pages are tricky to read on windows, so therefore are all
+  those pages converted to HTML as well as pdf, and included in the release
+  archives.
+
+  The main curl.1 man page is also "built-in" in the command line tool. Use a
+  command line similar to this in order to extract a separate text file:
+
+        curl -M >manual.txt
+
+  Read the INSTALL file for instructions how to compile curl self.
+
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