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From: "Jonathan Graehl" <jonathan@graehl.org>
To: "Garance A Drosihn" <drosih@rpi.edu>
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Subject: RE: configuration files, XML, Mac OS X release
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:35:27 -0800
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> Applications query the same "defaults database" for their
> preferences.  So you could type a 'defaults' command in
> one window, and the application will see that the next
> time it checks (probably the next time the application
> is started).  No need to log out and back in.

... like the Windows Registry ;) (duck)

-Jonathan

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