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Re: List of database names for dwrite avail? (was: Re: Power on/off key quesition)

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From: Eric P. Scott
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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From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: Re: List of database names for dwrite avail? (was: Re: Power on/off key quesition)
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