.\" **************************************************************************.\" * _ _ ____ _.\" * Project ___| | | | _ \| |.\" * / __| | | | |_) | |.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|.\" *.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al..\" *.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms.\" * are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html..\" *.\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell.\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is.\" * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file..\" *.\" * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY.\" * KIND, either express or implied..\" *.\" **************************************************************************.TH curl_version 3 "5 March 2001" "libcurl 7.0" "libcurl Manual".SH NAMEcurl_version - returns the libcurl version string.SH SYNOPSIS.B #include <curl/curl.h>.sp.BI "char *curl_version( );".ad.SH DESCRIPTIONReturns a human readable string with the version number of libcurl and some ofits important components (like OpenSSL version).We recommend using \fIcurl_version_info(3)\fP instead!.SH RETURN VALUEA pointer to a zero terminated string. The string resides in a staticallyallocated buffer and must not be freed by the caller..SH "SEE ALSO".BR curl_version_info "(3)"