[svn] Fixes to support out of the box compilation on various Windows compilers.

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@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ send a POST request with the specified contents.
 
 ** The `--timeout' option now affects DNS lookup and establishing the
 connection as well.  Previously it only affected reading and writing
-data.
+data.  Those three timeouts can be set separately using
+`--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
+respectively.
 
 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
@@ -52,7 +54,8 @@ as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
 
 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for --timeout, --wait,
-and --waitretry.  For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as expected.
+--waitretry, and --limit-rate.  For instance, `--wait=0.5' now
+works as expected, and so does --limit-rate=2.5k.
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 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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