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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 1998 18:48:42 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Cc:        Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DRAFT: ports.7 
Message-ID:  <199801280818.SAA10741@cain.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 23:45:32 PST." <98Jan27.234546pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> 

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> >I suppose I could just change fetch so it uses http_proxy and ftp_proxy as 
> >well :)
> Uh... are you talking about something other than the HTTP_PROXY and
> FTP_PROXY environment variables?
Yes, well every other program which you can set the proxies with env vars. you 
use http_proxy, and ftp_proxy. Examples of programs which use this are 
Netscape, lynx, wget, and ftp (in -current anyway :)

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