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Date: Sun 25-May-1989 02:49:47 From: Unknown Subject: Application switches I just discovered that applications have a -Debug switch, that seems to display all icons, windows, and panels in the primary .nib file. I stumbled upon this when I added defaults database processing to my application and one of the defaults I was trying to add was...you guessed it...something called "Debug"! OK, so now we have -Host and -Debug...I wonder what other magic switches are built into applications. I can't find any documentation about this anyplace. That doesn't mean it isn't documented, but since there's no index for the NeXT manuals (grr!) it's pretty damn hard to look. Mark Crispin / 6158 Lariat Loop NE / Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-2020 mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU / MRC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil / (206) 842-2385 Atheist & Proud / 450cc Rebel pilot -- a step up from 250cc's!!! tabesaserarenakerebanaranakattarashii...kisha no kisha ga kisha de kisha-shita sumomo mo momo, momo mo momo, momo ni mo iroiro aru uraniwa ni wa niwa, niwa ni wa niwa niwatori ga iru >From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Date: Sun 25-May-1989 12:31:54 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Application switches 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.
Date: Sun 25-May-1989 21:16:31 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Application switches / comp.sys.next / ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer) / May 25, 1989 / >Well, here are some of the defaults provided by some of the apps... Does TechReport use such switches? It's a pain having to reenter all that configuration information every time it starts up. Jacob Gore Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept. {oddjob,chinet,att}!nucsrl!gore >From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Date: Sun 26-May-1989 14:36:49 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Application switches In article <12670033@eecs.nwu.edu> gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) writes: >Does TechReport use such switches? It's a pain having to reenter all that >configuration information every time it starts up. No, it doesn't. I will pass on the suggestion that it should. Ali >From: dvlsbd@dionysos.cs.umu.se
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