I second the proposal. On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 10:35:16 +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Are these environment variables, Yes. It would be nice if more programs supported them (I'm thinking of nsgmls in particular - at work, http connections to the outside only work through the proxy, and I've found no way of telling nsgmls not to try to fetch DTDs from the web when a URL for them is specified). Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig