Re: Living behind a SOCKS firewall

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In a message dated 00-12-22 21:02:19 EST, you write:

<<  i have a Debina machine that I have set up at hoem, and am fixing to move 
to
    work.
 
    At work I live behind a SOCKS firewall that will allow me to use HTTP and 
FTP
    by using the SOCKS proxy. Xan I set teh debian machine up to allow 
apt-get'ing
    things this way?
    If so, how.
  >>

What does "SOCKS" stand for??  And how do you set the $SOCKS
environmental variable?  I need to do that at work to connect my
machine there to the net.  Otherwise, when I start Netscape under
Linux, I get error message about SOCKS.  Thanks in advance....