Changes in 4.6 - July 3 1998

Changes:

• Added a first attempt to optionally parse the .netrc file for login user and password. If used with http, it enables user authentication. -n is the new switch.

Bugfixes:

• Removed the extra newlines on the default user-agent string.
• Corrected the missing ftp upload error messages when it failed without the verbose flag set. Gary W. Swearingen found it.
• Now using alarm() to enable second-precision timeout even on the name resolving/connecting phase. The timeout is although reset after that first sequence. (This should be corrected.) Gary W. Swearingen <swear@aa.net> reported.
• Now spells "Unknown" properly, as in "Unknown option 'z'"... :-)
• Added bug report email address in the README.
• Added a "current speed" field to the progress meter. It shows the average speed the last 5 seconds. The other speed field shows the average speed of the entire transfer so far.

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