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                                                           -*- text -*-
 GNU Wget
-========              (Temporary) home: http://wget.sunsite.dk/
-
-GNU Wget is a free network utility to retrieve files from the World
-Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet
-protocols.  It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the
-background, after having logged off.
-
-The recursive retrieval of HTML pages, as well as FTP sites is
-supported -- you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and home
-pages, or traverse a site like a WWW robot (Wget understands
-/robots.txt).
-
-Wget works exceedingly well on slow or unstable connections, keeping
-getting the document until it is fully retrieved.  Re-getting files
-from where it left off works on servers (both HTTP and FTP) that
-support it.  Matching of wildcards and recursive mirroring of
-directories are available when retrieving via FTP.  Both HTTP and FTP
-retrievals can be time-stamped, thus Wget can see if the remote file
-has changed since last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new
-version if it has.
-
-Wget supports proxy servers, which can lighten the network load, speed
-up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls.  If you are behind a
-firewall that requires the use of a socks style gateway, you can get
-the socks library and compile wget with support for socks.
+========
+                           (Temporary) Web home: http://wget.sunsite.dk/
+
+GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from
+the Web.  It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as
+retrieval through HTTP proxies.
+
+It can follow links in HTML pages and create local versions of remote
+web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the original
+site.  This is sometimes referred to as "recursive downloading."
+While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard
+(/robots.txt).  Wget can be instructed to convert the links in
+downloaded HTML files to the local files for offline viewing.
+
+Recursive downloading also works with FTP, where Wget can retrieves a
+hierarchy of directories and files.
+
+With both HTTP and FTP, Wget can check whether a remote file has
+changed on the server since the previous run, and only download the
+newer files.
+
+Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network
+connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will
+keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved.  If the server
+supports regetting, it will instruct the server to continue the
+download from where it left off.
+
+If you are behind a firewall that requires the use of a socks style
+gateway, you can get the socks library and compile wget with support
+for socks.
 
 Most of the features are configurable, either through command-line
 options, or via initialization file .wgetrc.  Wget allows you to
 install a global startup file (/usr/local/etc/wgetrc by default) for
 site settings.
 
-Wget works under almost all modern Unix variants and, unlike many
-other similar utilities, is written entirely in C, thus requiring no
+Wget works under almost all modern Unix variants and, unlike many of
+its predecessors, is written entirely in C, thus requiring no
 additional software (like perl).  As Wget uses the GNU Autoconf, it is
 easily built on and ported to other Unix's. Installation procedure is
 described in the INSTALL file.
 
 Like all GNU utilities, the latest version of Wget can be found at the
 master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors.  For example,
-Wget 1.7.1 is at:
+Wget 1.8 is available at:
 
-    <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.7.1.tar.gz>.
+    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.8.tar.gz
 
 Please report bugs in Wget to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
 
 Wget has a mailing list at <wget@sunsite.dk>.  To subscribe, mail to
 <wget-subscribe@sunsite.dk>.  Wget's home page is temporarily at
-<URL:http://wget.sunsite.dk/>.  It is being migrated to
-<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>, where will be its permanent
-home.
+<http://wget.sunsite.dk/>.  It is being migrated to
+<http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>, where will be its permanent home.
 
 
 MAINTAINERS: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com>