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"
next prev parent 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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