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From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: ARP set command
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Date: 27 Apr 88 14:40:23 GMT
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In <2662@polya.STANFORD.EDU>, rokicki@polya.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
 >Who is responsible for the ARP set command?  I'd like the
 >functionality to be of the form:

 >set [item] [item]...

 >where each [item] is one of the following:

 >	var=value   Sets var to value
 >	var=	    Sets var to the empty string
 >	var	    Deletes var from the list

And in addition...

       var=?        Return current setting of this var only.

 ...unless someone wants to write a 'get var' command.

-larry


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