From 0e6f1c2dacb7027247518eb52ab53c92c6d8c467 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Giuseppe Scrivano Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:43:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: add documentation for mega dot style. --- doc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ doc/wget.texi | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 6daa997e..5e9c352b 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2013-04-14 Giuseppe Scrivano + + * wget.texi (Download Options): Document "mega" dot style. + 2013-04-05 Darshit Shah * doc/wget.texi: Fix ambiguous wording in --post-data section. Make it diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi index 288059ef..fed188ad 100644 --- a/doc/wget.texi +++ b/doc/wget.texi @@ -715,9 +715,12 @@ different meaning to one dot. With the @code{default} style each dot represents 1K, there are ten dots in a cluster and 50 dots in a line. The @code{binary} style has a more ``computer''-like orientation---8K dots, 16-dots clusters and 48 dots per line (which makes for 384K -lines). The @code{mega} style is suitable for downloading very large +lines). The @code{mega} style is suitable for downloading large files---each dot represents 64K retrieved, there are eight dots in a cluster, and 48 dots on each line (so each line contains 3M). +If @code{mega} is not enough then you can use the @code{giga} +style---each dot represents 1M retrieved, there are eight dots in a +cluster, and 32 dots on each line (so each line contains 32M). Note that you can set the default style using the @code{progress} command in @file{.wgetrc}. That setting may be overridden from the -- 2.39.2