%%name: wget

%%short-description: Retrieves files from the Web 
 
%%full-description: Wget is a network utility to retrieve files from
the Web using http and ftp, the two most widely used Internet
protocols. It works non-interactively, so it will work in the
background, after having logged off. The program supports recursive
retrieval of web-authoring pages as well as ftp sites-- you can use wget to
make mirrors of archives and home pages or to travel the Web like a
WWW robot.

Wget works particularly well with slow or unstable connections by
continuing to retrive a document until the document is fully
downloaded. Re-getting files from where it left off works on servers
(both http and ftp) that support it. Both http and ftp retrievals
can be time stamped, so wget can see if the remote file has changed
since the last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new version if
it has.

Wget supports proxy servers; this can lighten the network load, speed
up retrieval, and provide access behind firewalls.

%%category: development, web-authoring

%%license: GPL

%%maintainer: Hrovje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>

%%interface: Command line

%%updated: 23 Feb 2000

%%keywords: Internet, file management, WWW

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%%GNU: yes

%%web-page: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html

%%support:

%%doc: User reference manual included

%%developers: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>

%%contributors: Gordon Matzigkeit, Darko Budor, Junio Hamano

%%sponsors:

%%source: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/wget 

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%%related: GNUScape Navigator

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%%use-requirements: Autoconf

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%%version: 1.5.3 released 23 Sep 1998

%%announce-list: wget@sunsite.auc.dk

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