From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16113 invoked by alias); 15 Sep 2009 15:14:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 16101 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Sep 2009 15:14:44 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,EXECUTABLE_URI,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.prospeed.net (HELO mail.prospeed.net) (64.25.80.140) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:14:40 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (lhall.prospeed.net [64.25.83.123]) by mail.prospeed.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85449280173C5 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:14:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4AAFAF04.6000300@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:14:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup.exe: How specify web proxy by command line parameters References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00320.txt.bz2 On 09/15/2009 11:00 AM, Dr. Christoph Gille wrote: > Hi all, > > I am developing a computer program > http://www.bioinformatics.org/strap/ which uses Cygwin. Cygwin > is installed automatically by the program. The user does not need > to interact with setup.exe. This is done by downloading and > starting setup.exe programmatically, with some command line options. > > My problem: I need to specify the Web-proxy. I have looked for > command line parameters, environment variables, registry > entries and files, but have not found anything. > > How can I programmatically specify the Web proxy for invocation of setup.exe? > > There had been discussion on this previously: > > http://www.nabble.com/-Patch--Proxy-command-line-argument-td14989738.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg35204.html Sounds like you want Cygwin 1.7's setup.exe -> -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple