From 4e92ad1cdbb363d2372bc381518f6c714bb820e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hniksic <devnull@localhost>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:58:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [svn] Explain default --tries

---
 doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
 doc/wget.texi | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 1fdc6ce7..013923b7 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-09-17  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@xemacs.org>
+
+	* wget.texi (Download Options): Explain how --tries works by
+	default.
+
 2003-09-17  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@xemacs.org>
 
 	* wget.texi (Download Options): Explain new --restrict-file-names
diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index f0c66e69..15dcd51c 100644
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -512,7 +512,8 @@ IPs.
 @item -t @var{number}
 @itemx --tries=@var{number}
 Set number of retries to @var{number}.  Specify 0 or @samp{inf} for
-infinite retrying.
+infinite retrying.  The default is to retry 20 times but fatal errors
+like ``connection refused'' or ``not found'' (404) are not retried.
 
 @item -O @var{file}
 @itemx --output-document=@var{file}