From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: GNU Wget 1.5.0 - WWW file retrieval utility
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:04:37 GMT

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Wget 1.5.0 has been released.  Get it from
<URL:ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/wget-1.5.0.tar.gz>; or one of its
mirrors.

GNU Wget is a free network utility to retrieve files from the World
Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet
protocols.  It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the
background, after having logged off.

Wget has many features, such as recursive retrieval of Web and FTP
sites, regetting files from FTP and HTTP/1.1 servers, proxy support,
norobots support, personal and site-wide startup files and more.

There is a mailing list dedicated to Wget, located at sunsite.auc.dk.
Mail to <wget-subscribe@sunsite.auc.dk> to susbcribe.

News since 1.4.5, the last officially released version:

** Wget speaks many languages!

On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
set by the current locale, if available.  At this time we support
Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.

** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.

** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.

** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.

** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.

** The `-w' option now accepts suffices `s' for seconds, `m' for
minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.

** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
`wget-log'.

** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.

** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
directories.

** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized.  For
instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
ASCII type transfer:

    wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"

** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
standards set by other GNU utilities.

** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment.  MS
Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.

** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
download.

** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
distributed with Wget.

- -- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!!



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