[BAT] forwarded message from Bruce A. Mah

Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:06:03 -0400

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Unless the network is lying to me again, Todd C. Miller said:=20

> > : One thing I'm personally working on is making the output of "wicontro=
l -l"
> > : under FreeBSD look similar to "wiconfig -D" under NetBSD.  Would anyo=
ne=20
> > : have a problem if I were to change the option from "-l" to "-D"?

> Personally, I prefer -L or -l (unfortunately -l is already used on
> OpenBSD).  When I see -D I think debug but it's not a huge deal.

I tend to agree, but -D is what NetBSD uses, and I've seen some (nifty)
scripts that use this interface.

I'm ready to do a:

netnames=3D`wicontrol $iface -D | awk '$1 ~/netname/ { print $4 }' | sort -=
u`

and get a list of all available APs.  ;-)

AlanC

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