Andrew Brown writes:
> >Parsing begins to become a serious pain.
> 
> are inet addresses no longer going to be assigned this way?  isn't
> netstart supposed to be able to read the ifconfig.### files anyway?
> doens't it "implicitly" know how to parse the file?

ifconfig.foo works by having netstart do "ifconfig foo `cat ifconfig.foo`"
That isn't parsing by any normal use of the term.

Perry