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Version 2.0:
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- Large file support thanks thanks David Turnbull
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- Custom Header Support thanks Eli Yukelzon
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- New russian translation thanks newhren
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- Fix segfault in -H option thanks Philipp Hagemeister
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- Honour http_proxy and prefer it over HTTP_PROXY
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- Add new RPM spec file thanks bbbush
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Finished Sep 12 2008
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Version 1.1:
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- Compilation for GNU/kFreeBSD, thanks to Cyril Brulebois
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- Use simple pop-ups for Help and Bug Report buttons
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- Use strncpy instead of strcpy for length sensitive copies
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- Always compile with -g, disable -O3
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- Translation updates: de.po thanks Hermann J. Beckers
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- Update manpages axel.1 and axel-kapt.1
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- Prevent crash and raise error if FTP CWD fails
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- Prevent crash on long URLs and increase max length of URL to 1024
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- Fix segfaults on HTTP404 and HTTP401 responses
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Finished Jan 18 2008
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Version 1.0b:
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- Removed spaces between -S[x] in man-pages, etc. They mess things up.
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- Fixed configure for OpenBSD.
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- Fixed configuration bug: s/alternate_interface/alternate_output/ in
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axelrc.example, thanks to CLOTILDE Guy Daniel for the bug report!
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- Fixed weird behaviour when downloading from an unsupported server.
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- Fixed buffer overflow in conn.c. (CAN-2005-0390)
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Finished Apr 06 2005
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Version 1.0a:
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- gstrip on Solaris/SPARC breaks the binary, so stripping is made optional
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(but enabled by default!) and /usr/ccs/bin/strip is used instead of
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gstrip.
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- Fixed a small (not harmful) errorcode interpretation bug in the ftp_size
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code.
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- Downloading from unsupported sites works better now.
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- Added support for downloading using more than one local network interface.
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- Fixed a potential SIGSEGV bug. Would only happen with about more than 64
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connections usually. Still strange things can happen with too many
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connections when using Linux..
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- Hopefully fixed the problem with downloading from forwarding URL's.
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- HTTP %-escapes are handled now.
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- Alternate progress indicator with estimation of remaining download time
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- Changed the return-code a bit, see man-page for details.
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Finished Feb 19 2002
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Version 1.0:
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- Fixed a reconnect problem: Check for stalled connections was skipped by
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previous versions if there is no active connection.
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- Solaris does not have www in /etc/services which confused Axel. Fixed.
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- Created a new build system.
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- install utility not used anymore: Solaris' install does weird things.
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- Added support for Cygwin and Solaris.
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- Corrected a little problem in de.po.
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- Thrown out the packaging stuff.
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Finished Dec 6 2001
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Version 0.99b brings you:
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- Debian package bugfix.
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- Restored i18n support.
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Finished Nov 16 2001
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Version 0.99a brings you:
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- Small bugfix for dumb HTTP bug.
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Finished Nov 10 2001
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Version 0.99 brings you:
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- Improved speed limiter. (For low speeds a smaller buffer works better,
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so the buffer is resized automatically for low speeds.)
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- Some FTP servers don't ask for a password which confused ftp.c. Fixed.
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- Some HTTP servers send chunked data when using HTTP/1.1. So I went back
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to HTTP/1.0.. (This also fixes the occasional filesearching.com problem)
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- Even more problems with FTP server reply codes, but they must be fixed
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now, Axel's RFC compliant.
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- For HTTP downloads a Range: header is not sent when downloading starting
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at byte 0. This is just a work-around for a problem with a weird webserver
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which sends corrupted data when a Range: header is sent. It's just a
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work-around for a rare problem, it does not really fix anything.
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- RPM package for axel-kapt added.
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Finished Nov 9 2001
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Version 0.98 brings you:
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- Fixed the weird percentage indicator bug. (Was buggy for large files,
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did not affect the downloaded data.)
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- For single connection downloads from Apache: Apache returns a 200 result
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code when the specified file range is the complete file. Axel handles
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this correctly now.
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- Roxen FTP servers return the address and port number without brackets
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after a passive command. This is RFC-compliant but quite unique. But now
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handled correctly.
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- Fixed some things to make it work on Darwin again.
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- 'Upgraded' HTTP requests to HTTP/1.1. Tried this to fix a download
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corruption bug for downloads from archive.progeny.com, but it did not
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work. wget's resume has exactly the same problem. But using HTTP/1.1 is
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more compliant (because in fact HTTP/1.0 does not support Ranges) so I'll
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keep it this way..
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- Previous version used to delete the statefile in some cases. Fixed.
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Finished Nov 3 2001
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Version 0.97 (Bitcrusher) brings you:
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- Major redesign: Moved a lot of code from main() to separate functions,
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it should make it easier to create different interfaces for the program.
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- All those ifdefs were a mess, they don't exist anymore. Separate threads
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for setting up connections are used by default now. Version 0.96 will not
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disappear, by the way.
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- HTTP HEAD request not used anymore: Squid's headers are incorrect when
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using the HEAD request.
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- conn_disconnect did not work for FTP connections through HTTP proxies.
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- Documentation fix, sort of: The example configuration file still said
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proxies are unsupported. But they are supported for quite some time
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already.
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- Wrote a small (Small? Larger than any other doc.. :-) description of the
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Axel API.
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- Added finish_time code. (Credits to sjoerd@huiswerkservice.nl)
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- Calling conn_setup without calling conn_init first also works when using
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a proxy now.
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- A client for filesearching.com. You can use it to search for mirrors and
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download from more than mirror at once.
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- Fixed another segfault bug which did not show up on my own system...
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Also fixed by 0.96a.
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- Global error string is gone. Unusable in threaded programs.
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- The -V switch stopped working some time ago because I forgot to put it
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in the getopt string. Now it's back, alive and kickin'...
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- TYPE I should be done quite early. Some servers return weird file sizes
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when still in ASCII mode.
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- ftp.c (ftp_wait) sometimes resized conn->message to below MAX_STRING
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which is Not Good(tm).
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- I18N support is a bit broken at this time, it'll be fixed later.
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- Tidied up the man-page a bit.
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- Removed config.h file, -D flags used again.
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- Added axel-kapt interface.
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- Changed syntax: Local file must be specified using the -o option now.
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This allows the user to specify more than one URL and all of them will
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be used for the download. A local directory can be passed as well, the
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program will append the correct filename.
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- Fixed a bug which caused the program not to be able to download files
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for which only one byte has to be downloaded for one of the connections.
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- Why bitcrusher? Just because I liked to have a code name for this
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release... Bit crusher is a name of a musical group here in the
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Netherlands, and it's a nice name for a downloader as well, I hope...
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Finished Oct 25 2001
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Version 0.96 brings you:
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- Fixed a terrible bug which caused any FTP download to corrupt. I promise
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I will test the program before any next release. :-(( HTTP did work in
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0.95.
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Finished Aug 14 2001 (Why is this fix so late? Because the actual release
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of version 0.95 was only last Friday/Saturday...)
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And yes, I tested it now. It works now. HTTP and FTP.
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Version 0.95 brings you:
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- An important bugfix: When bringing up the connection failed, the program
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used to be unable to reconnect. :(
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- Small changes to make the program compile on FreeBSD and Darwin.
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- Support check for FTP servers is done only once now.
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- SIZE command is really used now.
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- Fixed a SIGINT-does-not-abort problem. Btw: Ctrl-\ (SIGQUIT) always works!
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- Connection status messages are not displayed by default. You can enable
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them with the verbose-option.
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Finished Aug 7 2001
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Version 0.94 brings you:
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- 'make install' uses install instead of mkdir/cp now.
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- Added 'make uninstall' option.
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- Added more explanations to axelrc.example.
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- It uses the HTTP HEAD request now. Didn't know that one before. :)
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- Debian packaging stuff and RPM .spec file included by default.
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- select() problem now really understood... The real point was, that
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sometimes select() was called with an empty fd set. Now I solved the
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problem in a more 'useful' way.
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Finished Jun 26 2001
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Version 0.93 brings you:
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- A compile-time option to remove all the multi-connection stuff. Program
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works without state files then, and it's a bit smaller, just in case you
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need a very small program and if you don't believe in acceleration. :)
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- The SIZE command is now used as long as the URL does not contain wildcards.
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Because FTP servers are just too different. :(
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- You can do FTP downloads through HTTP proxies now.
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- The weird initial 1-second delay which happened sometimes does not exist
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anymore: It was because of select(), which does not return immediately
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if there's data on a socket before the call starts. My first solution
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is using a lower timeout, I hope there's a better solution available...
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- Local file existence check.
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- Small bug fixed in conf.c.
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Finished May 22 2001
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Version 0.92 brings you:
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- A credits file!! ;)
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- A German translation. Herrman J. Beckers: Thanks a lot!
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- ftp.c should understand weird Macintosh FTP servers too, now.
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- Connections are initialized in a different thread because then the program
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can go on downloading data from other connections while setting up. Quick
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hack, but it works.
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- config.h contains the configuration definitions now.
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- A URL - can be specified. The program will read a URL from stdin. Might
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be useful if you don't want other people to see the URL in the 'ps aux'
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output. (Think about passwords in URLs...)
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Finished May 11 2001
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Version 0.91 brings you:
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- A man page.
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- A quiet mode.
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- A Debian package. (0.9 .deb exists too, but that was after the 'official'
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0.9 release..)
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- Made the sizes/times displayed after downloading more human-readable.
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- Corrected some stupid things in the nl.po file.
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- No bug in ftp_wait anymore, (or at least one bug less ;) the program was a
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bit too late with the realloc() sometimes. I just hate those multi-line
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replies.. :(
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- HTTP proxy support. no_proxy configuration flag also in use.
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- Support for empty configuration strings.
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- URL parser understands wrongly formatted URLs like slashdot.org. (instead
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of the correct http://slashdot.org/)
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Finished Apr 30 2001
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Version 0.9 brings you:
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- See the README for all the old features.
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- Internationalization support.
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- Clearer error messages.
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- Probably some bug fixes too.
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- A highly sophisticated Makefile.. ;)
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Finished Apr 22 2001
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