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To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>,
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Subject: Re: DRAFT: ports.7 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jan 98 00:18:42 PST."
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:38:59 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:
>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 :)

And with fetch, you use HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY.  Do you really mean that
the other programs use lowercase environment variables?

  Bill