ftp via proxy?

[Karola Risto <karolri@emea.powerware.com>]

Hi,

We have here a LAN with full of Windows PCs. My secondary PC is the only 
Linux machine in the LAN, and it has served well as an intraner server. And 
as a toy for myself.

I tried to use apt for installing some new packages into it, but ftp (nor 
http) didn't work. My question is how Debian or ftp (or rftp?) should be set 
up to get apt using ftp?

The Windows machines use Winsock to get through to internet. Netscape in the 
Linux box is somehow able to make ftp connections into internet via the 
proxy. So I would like to set up normal ftp command to use the same scheme 
as Netscape. How?

Thanks

RAK