Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!pikes!slate!rbeach From: rbeach@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Captain Entropy 312 Green Center 0 9867977) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: How do you find all of an Apps possible defaults. Message-ID: <1990Nov17.234559.22864@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: 17 Nov 90 23:45:59 GMT References: Organization: Colorado School of Mines Lines: 35 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 [...stuff deleted...] > >"dread -l" will do the trick (next time, you might want to read the >man pages first before posting a question to the net at large). If [.. stuff deleted...] Yes dread will tell you what all the defaults that have been set are, but only those that have been set. If the question is the same one I asked a year or so ago (and never got an answer to) it is how to find all the defaults that can be changed, regardless of whether they have been given a value or not yet. I know under 0.8 and 0.9 only things that had been changed were set in the defaults database. I gave up looking so it may have changed under 1.0 (or 2.0) and I am speaking unawares (pardon me if this is the case). If it has not changed though, and you want to change the font size in your shell (yes this is a bad example because I know it is in the online documentation and I think it gets a deafult value set in the database instead of in the program) you can't simply do a dread and find out what you want to dwrite. If I am wrong, I would like to know. If I am right, I would like to know if there is anyway to get an App to tell you what it considers configurable defaults. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Beach @ Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado USA I-Net and BitNet : rbeach@mines | CS/CH or : rbeach@slate.mines.colorado.edu | UUCP : ...isis!csm9a!rbeach |