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Article #310Re: List of database names for dwrite avail? (was: Re: Power on/off key quesition)
From: Eric P. Scott
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:53
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:53
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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.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!csus.edu!news 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> Sender: news@csus.edu Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1992Jul19.155752.10417@next.cambridge.ma.us> <1992Jul20.000857.26204@cube.handheld.com> <Bro3Bx.83o@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:53:59 GMT Lines: 37