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From: Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding M-x iwconfig to net-utils.el
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:21:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcgkjcy9.fsf@rabkins.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buove50yxqb.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:43:08 +0900")

Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> writes:

> Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:
>> I've added to wireless.el (a small library of mine) the ability to call
>> iwconfig diagnostically via "M-x iwconfig", as per the interface
>> net-utils.el provides to ifconfig, netstat etc.
>
> BTW, why does net-utils.el constantly refer to it as "ipconfig", when
> clearly it's running "ifconfig"?  Every system I've ever used has called
> it "ifconfig", so it seems very weird...

It must be a Microsoft Windows thing, since the net-utils.el code says:

(defcustom ipconfig-program
  (if (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
      "ipconfig"
    "ifconfig")
...

-- 
   "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-08  4:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-07 13:55 Adding M-x iwconfig to net-utils.el Yoni Rabkin
2008-02-08  2:43 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-08  4:21   ` Yoni Rabkin [this message]
2008-02-08  4:27     ` Miles Bader
2008-02-08  4:42       ` Yoni Rabkin
2008-02-08 18:48     ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-09  1:34       ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-09  1:43         ` Miles Bader
2008-02-09  2:19           ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-09  2:39           ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-09  2:42             ` Miles Bader
2008-02-09  3:16             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-09 15:06             ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-02-10  3:20         ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-10  3:46           ` Glenn Morris
2008-02-12  0:01             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-02-10  9:19           ` David Kastrup

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