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wmget - Background download manager in a Window Maker dock app
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Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Aaron Trickey
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Free software, licensed under ``MIT-style'' terms (see below)
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ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY -- SEE BELOW
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[This file is only rarely updated. If you're upgrading from a prior
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release, please see the file NEWS.]
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wmget is a dock app for the GNU Window Maker window manager (or one of
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the many other WM's which support dockapps) which makes it more
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convenient to perform long downloads in the background. It uses the
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excellent libcurl library, part of the cURL automated-download program,
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to perform file retrieval.
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The latest information about and version of wmget will hopefully always
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be available at:
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<http://amtrickey.net/wmget/index.html>
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Wmget requires libcurl (various versions from 7.5.1 on were used during
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development); this is part of the main cURL distribution. Grab it from:
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<http://curl.haxx.se/>
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configure and install it if you don't have it. And for routine download
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tasks, check out their ``curl'' command-line tool.
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wmget is written entirely in C. It (as of 0.4) uses a from-scratch
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dockapp library I cooked up for fun. This replaced a common dockapp
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utility library named wmgeneral.c, which helped me get off the ground;
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thanks to the authors (Martijn Pieterse & Dave Clark).
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The wmget manpage is written in Perl's POD documentation language. If you
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don't have Perl, that's fine; just don't delete and try to remake the
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manpage I provided.
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I'm releasing my code under the same licensing terms as the X Window
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System. These terms are commonly known as ``MIT'' licensing terms,
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since that's where they originated. I've attached these licensing
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terms, and the important non-warranty clauses, below.
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Enjoy!
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Aaron Trickey
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aaron at amtrickey dot net
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Licensing and Non-Warranty Terms and Disclaimers.
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Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Aaron Trickey
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
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AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
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CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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