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.
