2 wmget - Background download manager in a Window Maker dock app
3 Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Aaron Trickey
4 Free software, licensed under ``MIT-style'' terms (see below)
5 ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY -- SEE BELOW
7 [This file is only rarely updated. If you're upgrading from a prior
8 release, please see the file NEWS.]
10 wmget is a dock app for the GNU Window Maker window manager (or one of
11 the many other WM's which support dockapps) which makes it more
12 convenient to perform long downloads in the background. It uses the
13 excellent libcurl library, part of the cURL automated-download program,
14 to perform file retrieval.
16 The latest information about and version of wmget will hopefully always
18 <http://amtrickey.net/wmget/index.html>
20 Wmget requires libcurl (various versions from 7.5.1 on were used during
21 development); this is part of the main cURL distribution. Grab it from:
22 <http://curl.haxx.se/>
24 configure and install it if you don't have it. And for routine download
25 tasks, check out their ``curl'' command-line tool.
27 wmget is written entirely in C. It (as of 0.4) uses a from-scratch
28 dockapp library I cooked up for fun. This replaced a common dockapp
29 utility library named wmgeneral.c, which helped me get off the ground;
30 thanks to the authors (Martijn Pieterse & Dave Clark).
32 The wmget manpage is written in Perl's POD documentation language. If you
33 don't have Perl, that's fine; just don't delete and try to remake the
36 I'm releasing my code under the same licensing terms as the X Window
37 System. These terms are commonly known as ``MIT'' licensing terms,
38 since that's where they originated. I've attached these licensing
39 terms, and the important non-warranty clauses, below.
44 aaron at amtrickey dot net
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