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Re: What environment variables are needed under Cygwin?
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:53:54PM -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> This may be a stupid question; but I can't find a good list of common
> environment variables for most applications to work.
> I am not talking about the CYGWIN variable. That variable is very well
> documented throughout this list and on the Cygwin site documentation.
> I mean variables like HTTP_proxy and TZ.
UNIX standard env vars are documented e.g. here:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html
> I have had very little success getting the *_proxy variables working with
> lynx, ncftp, or wget.
Did you look into /usr/share/lynx.cfg? It explains the setting
of *_proxy, AFAIK.
Corinna
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