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Richard Stallman wrote:

> Emacs should follow the practices of the GNU system, not Windows.
> So this variable should be called ifconfig-program.
>
> I changed that and related names.

And I added some variable aliases to avoid punishing users of this
package for a mistake outside their control.


PS. It's funny how people often switch to the past tense when writing
certain ChangeLog entries (eg: "rename", "move").