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diff --git a/helm/http_getter/http_getter_misc.mli b/helm/http_getter/http_getter_misc.mli
index 6086b8d5a..2047cf204 100644
--- a/helm/http_getter/http_getter_misc.mli
+++ b/helm/http_getter/http_getter_misc.mli
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 (*
- *  Copyright (C) 2000, HELM Team.
+ * Copyright (C) 2003:
+ *    Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@cs.unibo.it>
+ *    for the HELM Team http://helm.cs.unibo.it/
  *
  *  This file is part of HELM, an Hypertextual, Electronic
  *  Library of Mathematics, developed at the Computer Science
@@ -21,9 +23,13 @@
  *  MA  02111-1307, USA.
  *
  *  For details, see the HELM World-Wide-Web page,
- *  http://cs.unibo.it/helm/.
+ *  http://helm.cs.unibo.it/
  *)
 
+ (** 'mkdir' failed, arguments are: name of the directory to be created and
+ failure reason *)
+exception Mkdir_failure of string * string
+
  (** "fold_left" like function on file lines, trailing newline is not passed to
  the given function *)
 val fold_file : ('a -> string -> 'a) -> 'a -> string -> 'a
@@ -35,13 +41,20 @@ val iter_file : (string -> unit) -> string -> unit
 val hashtbl_sorted_fold :
   ('a -> 'b -> 'c -> 'c) -> ('a, 'b) Hashtbl.t -> 'c -> 'c
 
+  (** cp frontend *)
+val cp: string -> string -> unit
   (** wget frontend, if output is given it is the destination file, otherwise
-  standard wget rules are used *)
+  standard wget rules are used. Additionally this function support also the
+  "file://" scheme for file system addressing *)
 val wget: ?output: string -> string -> unit
-  (** gzip frontend, if keep = true original file will be kept *)
-val gzip: ?keep: bool -> string -> unit
-  (** gunzip frontend, if keep = true original file will be kept *)
-val gunzip: ?keep: bool -> string -> unit
+  (** gzip frontend. If keep = true original file will be kept, default is
+  false. output is the file on which gzipped data will be saved, default is
+  given file with an added ".gz" suffix *)
+val gzip: ?keep: bool -> ?output: string -> string -> unit
+  (** gunzip frontend. If keep = true original file will be kept, default is
+  false. output is the file on which gunzipped data will be saved, default is
+  given file name without trailing ".gz" *)
+val gunzip: ?keep: bool -> ?output: string -> string -> unit
   (** tempfile frontend, return the name of created file. A special purpose
   suffix is used (actually "_http_getter" *)
 val tempfile: unit -> string
@@ -53,6 +66,10 @@ val mkdir: ?parents: bool -> string -> unit
 val string_of_proc_status : Unix.process_status -> string
 
   (** raw HTTP downloader, return Some the contents of downloaded resource or
-  None if an error occured while downlaoding *)
+  None if an error occured while downloading. This function support also
+  "file://" scheme for filesystem resources *)
 val http_get: string -> string option
+  (** 'iter' like method that iter over string slices (unspecified length) of a
+  remote resources fetched via HTTP GET requests *)
+val http_get_iter_buf: callback:(string -> unit) -> string -> unit