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@@@STARTPACK(wget; Retrieve files from the World Wide Web)
<P>
Wget is a utility designed for retrieving binary documents
across the Web, through the use of HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer
Protocol) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol), and saving
them to disk. Wget is non-interactive, which means it can
work in the background, while the user is not logged in,
unlike most of web browsers (thus you may start the
program and log off, letting it do its work). Analysing
server responses, it distinguishes between correctly and
incorrectly retrieved documents, and retries retrieving
them as many times as necessary, or until a user-specified
limit is reached. REST is used in FTP on hosts that
support it. Proxy servers are supported to speed up the
retrieval and lighten network load.
<P>
Wget supports a full-featured recursion mechanism, through
which you can retrieve large parts of the web, creating
local copies of remote directory hierarchies. Of course,
maximum level of recursion and other parameters can be
specified. Infinite recursion loops are always avoided by
hashing the retrieved data. All of this works for both
HTTP and FTP.
</P>
@@@OSR5DIST(http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/net/wget/)
@@@UW2DIST(http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/net/)
@@@SOURCE(ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/)
@@@ENDPACK