Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!awdprime!xgate.x.austin.ibm.com!alexn From: alexn@xgate.x.austin.ibm.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: How do you find all of an Apps possible defaults. Message-ID: <4213@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 13 Nov 90 15:41:30 GMT References: Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Organization: IBM AWD, Austin Lines: 26 In article declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) writes: >In article , velasco@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) writes: >> In particular, how do I find all of the possible defaults for something >> like Workspace or Edit. I found as least some of them for Terminal and >> Shell in the on-line documentation at one time, but I can't remember >> where it was. The names of the files when you use the Digital >> Librarian aren't very useful. > As far as I know, you can use dread -l to find the CURRENT defaults of all the clients. You can use dread -o to find the current defaults for a given clients, i.e, dread -o Terminal will produce all the current defaults for Terminal. However, I don't know of a way of finding all the possible defaults which a client will support. Until the parameter for a given client is added to the database, there is no way (as far as I know) to know the parameter. For example, by default the Window Server is non-public but when you do a dread -o System, there is not even an entry for the PublicWindowServer parameter unless someone has already set it; in other words, if there is not an entry for a parameter for a given client, the client usually assumes a default behavior. Hope this helps.... Alex