From 64a7770f53801d33cacc857fe0e6fe15b8a540fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:36:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 2008-11-16 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
Added a section that explains how to pass argument to options
that takes optional arguments with its short form.
* doc/aria2c.1.txt
---
ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
doc/aria2c.1 | 3 +++
doc/aria2c.1.html | 9 ++++++++-
doc/aria2c.1.txt | 9 +++++++++
4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a3ac6c76..6bbb3bf9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-11-16 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
+
+ Added a section that explains how to pass argument to options that
+ takes optional arguments with its short form.
+ * doc/aria2c.1.txt
+
2008-11-16 Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
Added -u for the short form of --max-upload-limit option.
diff --git a/doc/aria2c.1 b/doc/aria2c.1
index 183126ce..67675a74 100644
--- a/doc/aria2c.1
+++ b/doc/aria2c.1
@@ -782,6 +782,9 @@ is given, this feature is disabled\&. Default:
.RS 4
Print the version number, copyright and the configuration information and exit\&.
.RE
+.SS "OPTIONS THAT TAKES OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS"
+The options that has its arguments surrounded by square brackets([]) are optional\&. Usually ommiting the argument is evaluated to \fItrue\fR\&. If you use short form of these option(such as \fI\-V\fR) of these options and give arugment, then the option name and its argument should be concatenated like \fI\-Vfalse\fR)\&. If any spaces are inserted between the option name and argument, the argument treated as URI and usually this is not what you expect\&.
+.sp
.SS "URL, TORRENT_FILE, METALINK_FILE"
You can specify multiple URLs in command\-line\&. Unless you specify \fB\-Z\fR option, all URLs must point to the same file or downloading will fail\&.
.sp
diff --git a/doc/aria2c.1.html b/doc/aria2c.1.html
index 95ab6e24..4fc9c293 100644
--- a/doc/aria2c.1.html
+++ b/doc/aria2c.1.html
@@ -1433,6 +1433,13 @@ are also allocated if they share a same piece.
+OPTIONS THAT TAKES OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS
+The options that has its arguments surrounded by square brackets([])
+are optional. Usually ommiting the argument is evaluated to true.
+If you use short form of these option(such as -V) of these options and give
+arugment, then the option name and its argument should be concatenated like
+-Vfalse). If any spaces are inserted between the option name and argument, the
+argument treated as URI and usually this is not what you expect.
You can specify multiple URLs in command-line.
Unless you specify -Z option, all URLs must point to the same file or downloading will fail.
@@ -2021,7 +2028,7 @@ files in the program, then also delete it here.