Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:08:26 -0500 From: Jason Tishler To: Andrew Markebo Cc: Niklas Morberg , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How do I use a socks server with cygwin? Message-ID: <20011220190825.GB1472@dothill.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Markebo , Niklas Morberg , cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20011220132712.GB2396@dothill.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Andy, On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 04:25:18PM +0100, Andrew Markebo wrote: > Meanwhile, using a socks server, well basically it should be up to the > application, not cygwin to handle this, so if you find a cvs > supporting socks off you go.. :-) Sorry, I disagree. Why modify every application (of interest) when one can use a "shim" like Hummingbird under Windows, tsocks under Linux, etc.? The duplicated effort doesn't seem to make sense. Jason -- 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/