some unixes have the netrc description in the ftp(1) man page

diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 6905e5e3b0e2fe6438009b40d45226e97cd21029..a93a0dccc902096292ffd427154ef03b40714527 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .\" nroff -man curl.1
 .\" Written by Daniel Stenberg
 .\"
-.TH curl 1 "5 Sep 2001" "Curl 7.9" "Curl Manual"
+.TH curl 1 "11 Sep 2001" "Curl 7.9" "Curl Manual"
 .SH NAME
 curl \- get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE, HTTP or
 HTTPS syntax.
@@ -325,6 +325,8 @@ file in the user's home directory for login name and password. This is
 typically used for ftp on unix. If used with http, curl will enable user
 authentication. See
 .BR netrc(4)
+or
+.BR ftp(1)
 for details on the file format. Curl will not complain if that file
 hasn't the right permissions (it should not be world nor group
 readable). The environment variable "HOME" is used to find the home