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authorBjoern Buerger <b.buerger@pengutronix.de>2006-01-17 11:43:10 +0000
committerBjoern Buerger <b.buerger@pengutronix.de>2006-01-17 11:43:10 +0000
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@@ -5,6 +5,32 @@ config WGET
default N
prompt "wget"
help
- GNU wget is a commandline http and ftp fetch tool.
+ GNU wget is a commandline mirroring tool.
+
+ It is a network utility to retrieve files from the
+ Web using http and ftp, the two most widely used
+ Internet protocols. It works non-interactively,
+ so it will work in the background, after having
+ logged off. The program supports recursive retrieval
+ of web-authoring pages as well as ftp sites -- you
+ can use wget to make mirrors of archives and
+ home pages or to travel the Web like a WWW robot.
+
+ Wget works particularly well with slow or unstable
+ connections by continuing to retrieve a document
+ until the document is fully downloaded. Re-getting
+ files from where it left off works on servers
+ (both http and ftp) that support it.
+
+ Both http and ftp retrievals can be time stamped,
+ so wget can see if the remote file has changed
+ since the last retrieval and automatically retrieve
+ the new version if it has.
+
+ Wget supports proxy servers; this can lighten the
+ network load, speed up retrieval, and provide
+ access behind firewalls.
+
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
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