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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Subject: Re: List of database names for dwrite avail? (was: Re: Power on/off key quesition)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.095359.1374@csus.edu>
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- Organization: San Francisco State University
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:53:59 GMT
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- In article <Bro3Bx.83o@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu
- (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
- >Is there a place where *all* the names of options such as
- >"BypassPowerOffConfirm" are listed (as well as what they do)?
-
- No.
-
- > I've
- >seen tons of messages about what dwrite commands to give to get <this>
- >to do <that> but I can't find any list of where people get these
- >names.
-
- There isn't one. Information comes from many places: scattered
- throughout the official documentation, in NeXTanswers, in the
- Support Bulletin, from private communications with NeXT
- employees, etc.
-
- For NeXT-supplied-and-supported applications, what's documented
- can be expected to remain consistent from release to release.
- Anything else is fair game.
-
- The bottom line is that it's up to each application to decide
- which defaults to recognize and how to interpret them. (In UNIX-
- speak, the analogous question is something like, "is there a list
- of all the environment variables...") (Of course not, it's up to
- each program to call getenv() as it chooses and do whatever it
- wants with the information.)
-
- Trying to produce a comprehensive list is a thankless job;
- there's too much to keep track of, and it keeps changing.
-
- The only true documentation is the source code to each
- application.
-
- -=EPS=-
- --
- Object-Code-Only is evil. But you knew that already.
-