Thanks to Ben Taitelbaum for this.

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copy the switchto.patch to the directory switchto is in and run

patch -p0 < switchto.patch

So all the iwconfig keywords are now:
  essid, nwid, freq, channel, sens, mode, ap, nick,
    rate, rts, frag, txpower, key, power, retry
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