[greenbaum@ti.com: cygwin setup and firewalls]

[Chris Faylor]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 11:58:38AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>Maybe we should modify setup so that if it detects a timeout, it prints
>a paragraph or so of hints for setting up the proxy?
>
>>However, if they do not have IE installed and don't want to install it,
>>they can go to "Internet Properties" in "Control Panel" and configure
>>their proxy using the "Connections" tab.  (The labels are according to
>>Windows 98 SE, of course these may be different with other Win32 OS
>>versions.)

As I keep repeatedly saying, I have looked into a couple of these "proxy
issues" and they were only problems with parsing of the ftp data being
returned.  I've fixed this when I can.

Before we start speculating on fixes for problems, I would like to see
some concrete data.

cgf