2007-09-12 Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>
* wget.texi: Expanded the description of -O. Clarified the
- detection of elements as "patterns" versus "suffixes" in -A, -R.
+ detection of elements as "patterns" versus "suffixes" in -A,
+ -R. Describe -p in relation to -nc.
2007-07-28 Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>
cases, the local file will be @dfn{clobbered}, or overwritten, upon
repeated download. In other cases it will be preserved.
-When running Wget without @samp{-N}, @samp{-nc}, or @samp{-r},
+When running Wget without @samp{-N}, @samp{-nc}, @samp{-r}, or @samp{p},
downloading the same file in the same directory will result in the
original copy of @var{file} being preserved and the second copy being
named @samp{@var{file}.1}. If that file is downloaded yet again, the
preventing clobbering), but rather the multiple version saving that's
prevented.
-When running Wget with @samp{-r}, but without @samp{-N} or @samp{-nc},
-re-downloading a file will result in the new copy simply overwriting the
-old. Adding @samp{-nc} will prevent this behavior, instead causing the
-original version to be preserved and any newer copies on the server to
-be ignored.
-
-When running Wget with @samp{-N}, with or without @samp{-r}, the
-decision as to whether or not to download a newer copy of a file depends
-on the local and remote timestamp and size of the file
-(@pxref{Time-Stamping}). @samp{-nc} may not be specified at the same
-time as @samp{-N}.
+When running Wget with @samp{-r} or @samp{-p}, but without @samp{-N}
+or @samp{-nc}, re-downloading a file will result in the new copy
+simply overwriting the old. Adding @samp{-nc} will prevent this
+behavior, instead causing the original version to be preserved and any
+newer copies on the server to be ignored.
+
+When running Wget with @samp{-N}, with or without @samp{-r} or
+@samp{-p}, the decision as to whether or not to download a newer copy
+of a file depends on the local and remote timestamp and size of the
+file (@pxref{Time-Stamping}). @samp{-nc} may not be specified at the
+same time as @samp{-N}.
Note that when @samp{-nc} is specified, files with the suffixes
@samp{.html} or @samp{.htm} will be loaded from the local disk and