doc: Make clearer the default recursion level.

[wget] / doc / wget.texi

diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index 675a036a7bff403256b2056f2a1605387e3ee625..8706fb2c89cc4dca103ac293760af335db58b79f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ data.
 
 @c man begin COPYRIGHT
 Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
-2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc.
 
 @iftex
 Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
@@ -63,7 +64,6 @@ Documentation License''.
 @ignore
 @c man begin AUTHOR
 Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>.
-Currently maintained by Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>.
 @c man end
 @c man begin SEEALSO
 This is @strong{not} the complete manual for GNU Wget.
@@ -190,7 +190,9 @@ gauge can be customized to your preferences.
 Most of the features are fully configurable, either through command line
 options, or via the initialization file @file{.wgetrc} (@pxref{Startup
 File}).  Wget allows you to define @dfn{global} startup files
-(@file{/usr/local/etc/wgetrc} by default) for site settings.
+(@file{/usr/local/etc/wgetrc} by default) for site settings. You can also
+specify the location of a startup file with the --config option.
+ 
 
 @ignore
 @c man begin FILES
@@ -524,6 +526,10 @@ presence of a @code{BASE} tag in the @sc{html} input file, with
 For instance, if you specify @samp{http://foo/bar/a.html} for
 @var{URL}, and Wget reads @samp{../baz/b.html} from the input file, it
 would be resolved to @samp{http://foo/baz/b.html}.
+
+@cindex specify config 
+@item --config=@var{FILE}
+Specify the location of a startup file you wish to use.
 @end table
 
 @node Download Options, Directory Options, Logging and Input File Options, Invoking
@@ -841,9 +847,7 @@ If you don't want Wget to wait between @emph{every} retrieval, but only
 between retries of failed downloads, you can use this option.  Wget will
 use @dfn{linear backoff}, waiting 1 second after the first failure on a
 given file, then waiting 2 seconds after the second failure on that
-file, up to the maximum number of @var{seconds} you specify.  Therefore,
-a value of 10 will actually make Wget wait up to (1 + 2 + ... + 10) = 55
-seconds per file. 
+file, up to the maximum number of @var{seconds} you specify.
 
 By default, Wget will assume a value of 10 seconds.
 
@@ -1075,6 +1079,13 @@ header and in HTML @code{Content-Type http-equiv} meta tag.
 You can set the default encoding using the @code{remoteencoding}
 command in @file{.wgetrc}. That setting may be overridden from the
 command line.
+
+@cindex unlink
+@item --unlink
+
+Force Wget to unlink file instead of clobbering existing file. This
+option is useful for downloading to the directory with hardlinks.
+
 @end table
 
 @node Directory Options, HTTP Options, Download Options, Invoking
@@ -1177,10 +1188,7 @@ Note that filenames changed in this way will be re-downloaded every time
 you re-mirror a site, because Wget can't tell that the local
 @file{@var{X}.html} file corresponds to remote URL @samp{@var{X}} (since
 it doesn't yet know that the URL produces output of type
-@samp{text/html} or @samp{application/xhtml+xml}.  To prevent this 
-re-downloading, you must use @samp{-k} and @samp{-K} so that the original 
-version of the file will be saved as @file{@var{X}.orig} (@pxref{Recursive 
-Retrieval Options}).
+@samp{text/html} or @samp{application/xhtml+xml}.
 
 As of version 1.12, Wget will also ensure that any downloaded files of
 type @samp{text/css} end in the suffix @samp{.css}, and the option was
@@ -1756,12 +1764,12 @@ case.
 @item -r
 @itemx --recursive
 Turn on recursive retrieving.  @xref{Recursive Download}, for more
-details.
+details.  The default maximum depth is 5.
 
 @item -l @var{depth}
 @itemx --level=@var{depth}
 Specify recursion maximum depth level @var{depth} (@pxref{Recursive
-Download}).  The default maximum depth is 5.
+Download}).
 
 @cindex proxy filling
 @cindex delete after retrieval
@@ -3905,9 +3913,8 @@ me).
 GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Nik@v{s}i@'{c} @email{hniksic@@xemacs.org},
 @end iftex
 @ifnottex
-GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Niksic @email{hniksic@@xemacs.org},
+GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Niksic @email{hniksic@@xemacs.org}.
 @end ifnottex
-and it is currently maintained by Micah Cowan @email{micah@@cowan.name}.
 
 However, the development of Wget could never have gone as far as it has, were
 it not for the help of many people, either with bug reports, feature proposals,