What directory does CURL to be saved to in Xampp?

I am trying to get started with CURL. I am running windows vista and have xampp installed. I down开发者_开发技巧loaded the curl zip and extracted this but the curl executable when run just does a quick flash of a command promp then disappears. where am I going wrong on this curl install?

curl is not a program with a graphical interface : it's a command-line tool.

This means you'll have to :

• open a command-line window
• navigate, with the cd command, to the directory in which curl.exe is
• and, then, call curl.exe, passing it some parameters on the command line.