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Make --waitretry documentation clearer.

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Giuseppe Scrivano 2010-10-26 02:00:53 +02:00
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2010-10-26 Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org>
* wget.texi (Download Options): Remove unclear statement about the
--waitretry option.
Reported by: Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at>.
2010-09-25 Merinov Nikolay <kim.roader@gmail.com>
* wget.texi (Download Options): Document --unlink option.

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@ -841,9 +841,7 @@ If you don't want Wget to wait between @emph{every} retrieval, but only
between retries of failed downloads, you can use this option. Wget will
use @dfn{linear backoff}, waiting 1 second after the first failure on a
given file, then waiting 2 seconds after the second failure on that
file, up to the maximum number of @var{seconds} you specify. Therefore,
a value of 10 will actually make Wget wait up to (1 + 2 + ... + 10) = 55
seconds per file.
file, up to the maximum number of @var{seconds} you specify.
By default, Wget will assume a value of 10 seconds.