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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Application switches
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Date: 25 May 89 12:31:54 GMT
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In article <2160@blake.acs.washington.edu> mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:
>     OK, so now we have -Host and -Debug...I wonder what other magic
>switches are built into applications.

Last time someone wanted to know switches, someone from NeXT said:
"Applications are supposed to have Preferences panels so you don't
have to use dwrite," and "you can use dread to find out switches."

Leaving it as an exercise to the reader to reconcile the two statements :-),
I'd like to point out that precious few applications now have preferences
panels, and I also don't think the majority of applications write the
values of all their switches into the defaults database.

In the absence of real documentation and preferences panels, perhaps
some kind person at NeXT who has collected a large and interesting
defaults database could do a "dread -l" to the net, so we can see what
other interesting things exist.
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