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-- -- PREVINET S.p.A. www.previnet.it -- Heiko Herold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +39-041-5907073 ph -- +39-041-5907472 fax > -----Original Message----- > From: Hrvoje Niksic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 4:47 PM > To: David Fritz > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't launch the Windows help file in response to > --help > > > David Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Attached is a patch that removes the ws_help() function from > > mswindows.[ch] and the call to it from print_help() in main.c. Also > > attached is an alternate patch that will fix ws_help(), which I > > neglected to update when I changed ws_mypath(). > > > > I find this behavior inconsistent with the vast majority of other > > command line tools. It's something akin to popping-up a web browser > > with the HTML version of the docs in response to `wget --help' when > > running in a terminal under X. > > You are right. Popping up the help screen probably seemed like a good > idea to an early porter of Wget to Windows, and it stuck because noone > bothered to remove it. > > Thanks for the patch, I've now applied it to CVS. >
