Michael Shigorin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> at least one of the people on ALT Linux Team used
> `wget --non-verbose' in scripts; that broke with 1.10.

Sorry about that.  I'm not sure if it makes sense to resurrect
--non-verbose for 1.10.2 or 1.11... most people seemed to use -nv,
which is still working.

> Maybe it would be reasonable not to advertise depreciated option
> name variations but to support them still?

I tried hard to do that, but missed --non-verbose.  Could you please
point out where the option is advertised?

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Applications
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking/WWW

Are these categories standardized anywhere?  How do I know that
"Networking/WWW" makes more sense that just "Network Applications" or
something else altogether?

>  @direntry
> -* Wget: (wget).         The non-interactive network downloader.
> +* Wget: (wget).         The non-interactive network downloader
>  @end direntry

Why remove the period?  Other GNU programs seem to have it.

> diff -Naur wget-1.6.orig/doc/sample.wgetrc wget-1.6/doc/sample.wgetrc
> --- wget-1.6.orig/doc/sample.wgetrc   Fri Apr 21 00:06:43 2000
> +++ wget-1.6/doc/sample.wgetrc        Tue Apr 10 17:51:58 2001
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
>  # connections from the outside.  On these sites you have to use the
>  # `passive' feature of FTP.  If you are behind such a firewall, you
>  # can turn this on to make Wget use passive FTP by default.
> -#passive_ftp = off
> +passive_ftp = on

Passive FTP is on by default as of 1.10, so this paragraph should
probably be rewritten to reflect that.  I'm thinking of something
along the lines of:

# By default Wget uses "passive FTP" transfer where the client
# initiates the data connection to the server rather than the other
# way around.  That is required on systems behind NAT where the client
# computer cannot be easily reached from the Internet.  However, some
# firewalls software explicitly supports active FTP and in fact has
# problems supporting passive transfer.  If you are in such
# environment, use "passive_ftp = off" to revert to active FTP.
#passive_ftp = off

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