Reini Urban wrote on 24 June 2008 12:45: > Dave Korn schrieb: >> Christopher Faylor wrote on 22 June 2008 17:26: >> >>> The patch that Reini mentions here seems to have languished. It seems >>> like it could be pretty useful. Is anyone willing to review it? >> >> Yep, I'll do that - I'll wait to see what Ralph comes up with though >> and compare the two approaches before committing anything. > > Dave, > > I've found another useful command-line enhancement from Max' old days.
Nice one. I'm not going to be very responsive right now, I'm at work. I'll get onto these patches this evening. > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00261.html > Tracked at http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=854 > > -E: use IE connection settings for downloading > -H: give a proxy name to use ... > -P: give a proxy port to use ... > -a: install everything > -u: uninstall everything > -e: re-install everything > > Summary of the followups: > -H does not clash with -h for help, but Rob doesn't like it. > -P "name:port" for proxy would be preferred instead of > -H proxy-host -P proxy-port We already have a "-p host:port" proxy argument since a little while back. Think I may have only applied it to mainline rather than branch. Will combine the best bits from all these patches. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
