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Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 20:33:17 +0100
To: Tony Maher <tonym@biolateral.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
Subject: Re: literal colon in /etc/login.conf
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Hi,

>is it possible to have a literal colon in /etc/login.conf?
>I wish to set a proxy env var HTTP_PROXY=cache.some.domain:8080
>(I am running 4.5)
>I cant see anything in man page and its getting to late to read the source
>;-)

RTFM  getcap(3):

>\c, \C    (:)                  colon


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