Re: wget -A downloading anyway then removing to cover its tracks

[Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "S" == Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:

S>      it's documented feature: even the four years old version of manual
S> which is on the web (Updated for Wget 1.5.3, Sep 1998) explains it exactly
S> in the same words as the newest cvs release:

S>    Note that these two options do not affect the downloading of HTML files;
S>    Wget must load all the HTMLs to know where to go at all--recursive
S>    retrieval would make no sense otherwise.

Ah, of course!  I did not see that critical sentence.  Why?  Because:
1. when one reads the entire -A entry on the man page, one will not see it.
2. when one reads the entire -A entry on the "Recursive Accept/Reject
Options" info page, one will not see it.
3. when one reads the entire -A entry on the "Types of Files" info
page, one will not see it... unless one keeps on reading, into the -R
entry for some reason, and even further for some reason (nothing else
to do today), and then, low and behold there it is mentioned at the
bottom of that page.

No, I didn't say you should even make a note about it in --help, just
that you need more notes than now please.
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