Noel Koethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> the wget 1.8.1 manpage tells me:
>
> --progress=type
> Select the type of the progress indicator you wish to
> use. Legal indicators are ``dot'' and ``bar''.
>
> The ``dot'' indicator is used by default. It traces
> the retrieval by printing dots on the screen, each dot
> representing a fixed amount of downloaded data.
>
> But it looks like the default is "bar".
Yes. Thanks for the report; I'm about to apply this fix.
2002-04-15 Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* wget.texi (Download Options): Fix the documentation of
`--progress'.
Index: doc/wget.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /pack/anoncvs/wget/doc/wget.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.64
diff -u -r1.64 wget.texi
--- doc/wget.texi 2002/04/13 22:44:16 1.64
+++ doc/wget.texi 2002/04/15 20:52:28
@@ -625,10 +625,15 @@
Select the type of the progress indicator you wish to use. Legal
indicators are ``dot'' and ``bar''.
-The ``dot'' indicator is used by default. It traces the retrieval by
-printing dots on the screen, each dot representing a fixed amount of
-downloaded data.
+The ``bar'' indicator is used by default. It draws an ASCII progress
+bar graphics (a.k.a ``thermometer'' display) indicating the status of
+retrieval. If the output is not a TTY, the ``dot'' bar will be used by
+default.
+Use @samp{--progress=dot} to switch to the ``dot'' display. It traces
+the retrieval by printing dots on the screen, each dot representing a
+fixed amount of downloaded data.
+
When using the dotted retrieval, you may also set the @dfn{style} by
specifying the type as @samp{dot:@var{style}}. Different styles assign
different meaning to one dot. With the @code{default} style each dot
@@ -639,11 +644,11 @@
files---each dot represents 64K retrieved, there are eight dots in a
cluster, and 48 dots on each line (so each line contains 3M).
-Specifying @samp{--progress=bar} will draw a nice ASCII progress bar
-graphics (a.k.a ``thermometer'' display) to indicate retrieval. If the
-output is not a TTY, this option will be ignored, and Wget will revert
-to the dot indicator. If you want to force the bar indicator, use
-@samp{--progress=bar:force}.
+Note that you can set the default style using the @code{progress}
+command in @file{.wgetrc}. That setting may be overridden from the
+command line. The exception is that, when the output is not a TTY, the
+``dot'' progress will be favored over ``bar''. To force the bar output,
+use @samp{--progress=bar:force}.
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