Windows Title Bar

2006-04-18 Thread Derek Parnell
I'd like to be able to exactly specify the title that appears on the console title bar (Windows environment of course). Current the application uses the URL that is being got but I'd like to specify it myself. Is there a way to do this now or does this have to be an enhancement? Something like

Re: Windows Title Bar

2006-04-18 Thread www.mail
Derek Parnell wrote: I'd like to be able to exactly specify the title that appears on the console title bar (Windows environment of course). Current the application uses the URL that is being got but I'd like to specify it myself. Is there a way to do this now or does this have to be an

Re: Windows Title Bar

2006-04-18 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
www.mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something like ... wget --title=News Server #1 http://www.etc.com/latest_news.html So that News Server #1 appears as the console title rather than the URL (or its possible redirect). I think the standard Windows console application (cmd.exe) always

RE: Windows Title Bar

2006-04-18 Thread Tony Lewis
Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Anyway, adding further customizations to an already questionnable feature is IMHO not a very good idea. Perhaps Derek would be happy if there were a way to turn off this questionable feature. Tony

Re: wget 1.10.x: New option --random to randomize the dns result

2006-04-18 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
[ Moving the discussion to the Wget mailing list. Jerry's patch implements a --random option that shuffles the list of addresses returned by getaddrinfo. ] Jerry Lundström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A user scenario could be that wget with ipv6 enabled always picks a broken website since RFC

Re: Windows Title Bar

2006-04-18 Thread www.mail
Hrvoje Niksic wrote: www.mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something like ... wget --title=News Server #1 http://www.etc.com/latest_news.html So that News Server #1 appears as the console title rather than the URL (or its possible redirect). I think the standard Windows console application

Re: Windows Title Bar

2006-04-18 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
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

Re: Windows Title Bar

2006-04-18 Thread Tobias Tiederle
Hi, I'm using start [1]. That way I can specify the title, have it running in the background and adjust priority and stuff. If you want to use it in a batch file you can specify /wait. [Derek already got this, forgot to cc the list] TT [1] builtin command. Useable from cmd.exe or batch

RE: Windows Title Bar

2006-04-18 Thread Herold Heiko
From: Hrvoje Niksic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. I like it, for long/slow

Re: Windows Title Bar

2006-04-18 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Herold Heiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Hrvoje Niksic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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