From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9536 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jan Vroonhof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: wget, was [Re: idea.. check and grab new versions..?] Date: 22 Jan 1997 10:43:51 +0100 Sender: vroonhof@math.ethz.ch Message-ID: References: <199701211116.MAA28543@claymore.fukt.hk-r.se> <0fwwt71btp.fsf@fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.94) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149547 19076 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:32:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov.retnuh@pixar.com.jason@mastaler.com Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id CAA10866 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 02:18:48 -0800 Original-Received: from frege.math.ethz.ch (root@frege-d-math-north-g-west.math.ethz.ch [129.132.145.3]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:45:19 +0100 Original-Received: from fresnel.math.ethz.ch (vroonhof@fresnel [129.132.145.6]) by frege.math.ethz.ch (8.6.12/Main-STAT-mailer) with ESMTP id KAA17137; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:43:37 +0100 Original-Received: (vroonhof@localhost) by fresnel.math.ethz.ch (8.6.9/D-MATH-client) id KAA10150; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:43:52 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Jan Vroonhof's message of 21 Jan 1997 17:02:10 +0100 Original-Lines: 105 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.82/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9536 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9536 Jan Vroonhof writes: > wget ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/emacs/gnus/rgnus-$1.tar.gz Since I got mail from several people asking about wget: Wget README Wget [formerly known as Geturl] is a freely available 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. 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 /robots.txt). Wget works exceedingly well on slow or unstable connections, keeping getting the document until it is fully retrieved. Re-getting files from where it left off works on servers (both HTTP and FTP) that support it. Matching of wildcards and recursive mirroring of directories are available when retrieving via FTP. Both HTTP and FTP retrievals can be time-stamped, thus Wget can see if the remote file has changed since last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new version if it has. Wget supports proxy servers, to lighten the network load and to speed up retrieval. If you are behind a firewall and have the socks library installed, you can compile wget with support for socks. Most of the features are configurable, either through command-line options, or via initialization file .wgetrc. Wget allows you to install a global startup file (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by default) for site settings. Wget works under almost all modern Unix variants and, unlike many other similar utilities, is written entirely in C, thus requiring no additional software (like perl). As Wget uses the GNU Autoconf, it is easily built on and ported to other Unix's. Installation procedure is described in the INSTALL file. You can get the latest version of wget on: . That directory is mirrored daily at SunSITE Denmark: (ftp), and (http) Wget has its own mailing list at . To subscribe, Mail to with the word `subscribe' in the subject. AUTHOR: Hrvoje Niksic The program is being regularly tested on Solaris 2.5, Linux, Ultrix, OSF, SunOS 4.x (by me), but also on AIX, HPUX, IRIX, FreeBSD, QNX and others from time to time by other people. Special thanks to beta testers and other contributors: - Mark Boyns - Darko Budor - Zlatko Calusic - Kristijan Conkas - Andrew Davison - Aleksandar Erkalovic - Richard Huveneers - Marijo Juric - Drazen Kacar - Goran Kezunovic - Shawn McHorse - Tage Stabell-Kulo - Hrvoje Lacko - Mario Mikocevic - Tomislav Petrovic - Andrew Pollock - Antonio Rosella - Karsten Thygesen - Russell Vincent - Bojan Zdrnja - Kristijan Zimmer ...and all the others I've forgotten to place on the list! Copyright (C) 1995,96 Hrvoje Niksic This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.