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authorGarrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>1997-07-25 19:35:44 +0000
committerGarrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>1997-07-25 19:35:44 +0000
commit0c8cc99e5b596e5dfaf305daafc15946e93a6bb6 (patch)
treeaf632a5476e03a28e9d9f701c408e04c8a71005b /usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1
parent21cd47e85e8fe6b63c1509fb64dfe53d271511e0 (diff)
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1 b/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1
index 924e8672072e..8fe3e0b561f0 100644
--- a/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1
+++ b/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: fetch.1,v 1.16 1997/02/22 23:43:32 wosch Exp $
+.\" $Id: fetch.1,v 1.17 1997/03/05 18:57:15 fenner Exp $
.Dd July 2, 1996
.Dt FETCH 1
.Os FreeBSD 2.2
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
.Nd retrieve a file by Uniform Resource Locator
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm fetch
-.Op Fl MPamnpqr
+.Op Fl MPabmnpqr
.Op Fl o Ar file
.Ar URL
.Op Ar ...
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width Fl
.It Fl a
Automatically retry the transfer upon soft failures.
+.It Fl b
+Work around a bug in some
+.Tn HTTP
+servers which fail to correctly implement the
+.Tn TCP
+protocol.
.It Fl c Ar dir
The file to retrieve is in directory
.Ar dir
@@ -301,3 +307,7 @@ Only the
authentication mode is implemented for
.Tn HTTP .
This should be replaced by digest authentication.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fl b
+flag should not be necessary.