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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:32:46 -0500
From: "Zane C.B." <v.velox@vvelox.net>
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Subject: getting SSID that are ifconfig list scan unfriently (spaces and
 unprintable characters)
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Just sitting down beginning to write a perl module for getting
wireless info under FreeBSD.

With out knowing C, is there any way to get SSID info for networks
that contain something that makes ifconfig list scan unfriendly to
parse? Like spaces and unprintable characters.