curl*3: added small examples

and some minor edits

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_perform.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_perform.3
index 52830151c..e40c1e444 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_perform.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_perform.3
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 .\" **************************************************************************
 .TH curl_easy_perform 3 "5 Mar 2001" "libcurl 7.7" "libcurl Manual"
 .SH NAME
-curl_easy_perform - Perform a file transfer
+curl_easy_perform - perform a blocking file transfer
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B #include <curl/curl.h>
 .sp
@@ -58,6 +58,16 @@ CURLE_OK (0) means everything was ok, non-zero means an error occurred as
 defines - see \fIlibcurl-errors(3)\fP. If the \fBCURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER(3)\fP was
 set with \fIcurl_easy_setopt(3)\fP there will be a readable error message in
 the error buffer when non-zero is returned.
+.SH EXAMPLE
+.nf
+CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
+if(curl) {
+  CURLcode res;
+  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");
+  res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+}}
+.fi
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR curl_easy_init "(3), " curl_easy_setopt "(3), "
 .BR curl_multi_add_handle "(3), " curl_multi_perform "(3), "