[svn] Announce that wget -b now works under Windows.

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@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ use of IPv4 and IPv6 respectively.
 
 ** Talking to SSL servers over proxies now actually works.
 
+** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
+has to start over because the server doesn't support Range.  Instead,
+with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
+where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
+the file.  That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and "start
+over" retries work correctly even when downloading to stdout.
+
 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
 headers.  For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
@@ -33,6 +40,9 @@ which might not be what the user wants.  The new option
 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
 be used to revert to the old behavior.
 
+** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
+the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
+
 ** Many options that previously unconditionally set or unset various
 flags are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION'
 or `--no-OPTION'.  Options that required an argument "on" or "off"
@@ -49,6 +59,8 @@ save session cookies along with the permanent ones.  This is useful on
 sites that require you to log in before you can access some pages.
 With this option, multiple Wget runs will be treated as a single
 browser session.
+
+* `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
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 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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