As I understood it until now, GNU programs should output their version if the --version switch is used, regardless of circumstances. Wget 1.8.1, however, does not output its version if $WGETRC points to an invalid path (by typo, for example). (It's a great improvement to 1.7 that it tells me the wrong path, however). Test system was Windows NT4.0(build 1381 SP6+) using Cygwin 1.3.10-1, Bash 2.05a.0(3)
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