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author | Bjoern Buerger <b.buerger@pengutronix.de> | 2006-01-17 11:43:10 +0000 |
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committer | Bjoern Buerger <b.buerger@pengutronix.de> | 2006-01-17 11:43:10 +0000 |
commit | 3413b604c8925c68fcd9b9941d8493b23ede747b (patch) | |
tree | 58874e40d07bf6a9472168aec3f94b9fc6a94eb9 /rules/wget.in | |
parent | a106bda27b4dfd5eaf2d3804cde4046b7f802cec (diff) | |
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documentation update and dependency fixes
git-svn-id: https://svn.pengutronix.de/svn/ptxdist/trunks/ptxdist-0.9-trunk@4242 33e552b5-05e3-0310-8538-816dae2090ed
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diff --git a/rules/wget.in b/rules/wget.in index a7b0cf5c9..e21be5745 100644 --- a/rules/wget.in +++ b/rules/wget.in @@ -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/ endmenu |