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

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Developer                                mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Red Hat, Inc.

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

Reply via email to