From 97b4653de430729bba2bf439161c8b8145adfaf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hniksic Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 10:13:12 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [svn] Minor doc update. --- NEWS | 10 ++++++++++ README | 23 ++++++++++------------- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2a9a0290..fb9a769e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,6 +5,16 @@ See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . +* Changes in Wget 1.8. + +** A new progress indicator is now available. Try it with +--progress=bar or using `progress = bar' in `.wgetrc'. + +** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous +quoting bug. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' +is no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters +which are not reserved are still escaped, of course. + * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. * Changes in Wget 1.7. diff --git a/README b/README index e2679e27..6a10b60c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -*- text -*- GNU Wget -======== (Temporary) home: http://sunsite.dk/wget/ +======== (Temporary) home: http://wget.sunsite.dk/ 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 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ background, after having logged off. The recursive retrieval of HTML pages, as well as FTP sites is supported -- you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and home -pages, or traverse the web like a WWW robot (Wget understands +pages, or traverse a site like a WWW robot (Wget understands /robots.txt). Wget works exceedingly well on slow or unstable connections, keeping @@ -39,28 +39,25 @@ described in the INSTALL file. Like all GNU utilities, the latest version of Wget can be found at the master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors. For example, -Wget 1.7 is at: +Wget 1.7.1 is at: - . + . Please report bugs in Wget to . Wget has a mailing list at . To subscribe, mail to . Wget's home page is temporarily at -. It is being migrated to +. It is being migrated to , where will be its permanent home. -Wget is free in all senses -- it is freely redistributable, and no -payment is required. If you still wish to donate money to the -developers or fund the development for a specific purpose, please send -mail to the development mailing list at . +MAINTAINERS: Hrvoje Niksic + Dan Harkless -MAINTAINERS: Dan Harkless - Hrvoje Niksic - -Wget was originally written by Hrvoje Niksic. +Wget was originally written by Hrvoje Niksic. Please see the file +AUTHORS for a list of major contributors, and the ChangeLogs for a +detailed listing of all contributions. Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 Free Software