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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by kstrauser on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:15PM (#12321109)
I think the correct ergonomics would be if you saw:

  $ curl http://example.com/foo
  Fetching http://example.com/foo by emulating curl
  This command is an alias for "...".
  If you've installed a real curl command, disable this by typing...
so that you could still use muscle memory to type the commands you know, could see what the actual underlying command is so you could adapt to it, and would know how to use the Real Thing if you have it.
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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by emodendroket on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:45PM (#12321383)
Kind of noisy, isn't it?
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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by kstrauser on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:19PM (#12321654)
It is, but the noise is telling you how it differs from what you'd normally expect and how to address it. I think that's an acceptable tradeoff.
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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by emodendroket on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:36PM (#12321803)
I think it is immediately obvious from the output that it's not the same program, without the message.
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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by kstrauser on Friday August 19, 2016 @03:03PM (#12322615)
Really? What's the normal output? The content of the URL being fetched. If that message was to STDERR so that curl > foo worked without alteration but the help text still showed up on the console, I think fewer people would be surprised.

The number of bugs about this indicates that people are still being surprised.

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Re:Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' al... by emodendroket on Friday August 19, 2016 @03:36PM (#12322873)
That is not the output of the PoSh command. Like most of them it outputs a list of object properties and values: https://mcpmag.com/articles/2013/01/22/~/media/ECG/mcpmag/Im...
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