"www.mail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Changing console title was IMHO a mistaken feature to implement in the >>first place > > I agree. > > In the case of Windows, I believe that no console application should > alter the window title, as such applications will overwrite the title > which was specified at the start of a command script. Having said > that, even if wget did not alter the window title, the Windows console > (cmd.exe) would automatically append the wget command line to its > window title, if wget was executed directly from the command line.
The idea behind the feature is that you can see which URL is *currently* being downloaded (you can specify several). That's somewhat different than just seeing the command line. I still consider it a mistake, though.
