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- @@@STARTPACK(wget; Retrieve files from the World Wide Web)
-
- <P>
- Wget is a utility designed for retrieving binary documents
- across the Web, through the use of HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer
- Protocol) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol), and saving
- them to disk. Wget is non-interactive, which means it can
- work in the background, while the user is not logged in,
- unlike most of web browsers (thus you may start the
- program and log off, letting it do its work). Analysing
- server responses, it distinguishes between correctly and
- incorrectly retrieved documents, and retries retrieving
- them as many times as necessary, or until a user-specified
- limit is reached. REST is used in FTP on hosts that
- support it. Proxy servers are supported to speed up the
- retrieval and lighten network load.
- <P>
- Wget supports a full-featured recursion mechanism, through
- which you can retrieve large parts of the web, creating
- local copies of remote directory hierarchies. Of course,
- maximum level of recursion and other parameters can be
- specified. Infinite recursion loops are always avoided by
- hashing the retrieved data. All of this works for both
- HTTP and FTP.
- </P>
-
- @@@OSR5DIST(http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/net/wget/)
- @@@UW2DIST(http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/net/)
- @@@SOURCE(ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/)
- @@@ENDPACK
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