[or-cvs] clean up win32 instructions more

Roger Dingledine arma at seul.org
Fri Dec 17 06:38:15 UTC 2004


Update of /home2/or/cvsroot/tor/doc
In directory moria.mit.edu:/home2/arma/work/onion/cvs/tor/doc

Modified Files:
	tor-doc.html 
Log Message:
clean up win32 instructions more


Index: tor-doc.html
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/tor/doc/tor-doc.html,v
retrieving revision 1.29
retrieving revision 1.30
diff -u -d -r1.29 -r1.30
--- tor-doc.html	17 Dec 2004 06:30:10 -0000	1.29
+++ tor-doc.html	17 Dec 2004 06:38:13 -0000	1.30
@@ -144,10 +144,12 @@
 <tt>make</tt>, and then <tt>make install</tt> (as root if necessary). Then
 you can launch tor from the command-line by running <tt>tor</tt>.</p>
 
-<p>Win32 users can use our Tor installer. It will run Tor in a dos window,
-so you can see its logs, and see its error messages if it exits. If you
-don't want the default configuration, it comes with a torrc file that
-you can edit.
+<p>Win32 users can use our Tor installer. It will run Tor in a dos window
+so you can see its logs and errors. (You can minimize this window, but
+do not close it.) You can edit Tor's configuration by changing the torrc
+file that is installed, but the default config should be fine. After
+installing Tor, you should install Privoxy and configure it to use Tor
+as described <a href="#client">below</a>.
 </p>
 
 <p>Otherwise, if you got it prepackaged (e.g. in the <a
@@ -190,7 +192,7 @@
 href="http://www.privoxy.org/">privoxy</a>, which is a filtering web
 proxy that integrates well with Tor. Add the line <br>
 <tt>forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .</tt><br>
-(don't forget the dot) to its config file (you can just add it to the
+(don't forget the dot) to privoxy's config file (you can just add it to the
 top). Then change your mozilla to http proxy at localhost port 8118
 (and no socks proxy). You should also set your SSL proxy to the same
 thing, to hide your https traffic. Using privoxy is necessary because



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