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DWRITE(1)							     DWRITE(1)

NAME
       dwrite - write to the defaults database

SYNOPSIS
       dwrite
       dwrite owner name value
       dwrite -g name value

DESCRIPTION
       dwrite  writes  a  variable  and	 its  value  into  the user's defaults
       database.  If no command-line arguments are given, the  standard	 input
       (see csh(1)) is read.

       owner  is  the  application  associated	with the variable name.	 value
       becomes the value of the variable name.	If -g is specified, the	 value
       of the variable holds for all applications that access the variable via
       NXGetDefaultValue().  It is a global backdrop variable.

       There are two ways a default value for a variable can be set,  and  one
       way  a  default	value  can  be	overridden.  From lowest precedence to
       highest precedence, these are:

	    The default value may be set with the -g flag.
	    The default value may be set for a particular application.
	    The default value may be overridden by a command line option.

       For example, the following command would make Courier the default value
       of  the	NXFont	variable in all applications that don't have their own
       application-specific default value:

	    dwrite -g NXFont Courier

       If an application-specific default value is not found in the  database,
       this  global  default  value  is	 used  (assuming,  of course, that the
       application checks for the value of this variable).  So Edit,  as  well
       as other applications, would start to use Courier font by default.  The
       following command would cause Edit to override the global value for the
       Font variable and use Helvetica instead:

	    dwrite Edit NXFont Helvetica

       Other  applications  that  access the NXFont variable would continue to
       use Courier.

       To override either the global or application-specific default value for
       a  single  session,  specify  a	value for the appropriate command-line
       option when launching the application.  For example:

	    Edit -NXFont Courier

       The owner, name, and value fields output	 by  dread  are	 separated  by
       spaces,	so  that  those	 values	 can  be used as input to dwrite.  For
       example:

	      dread -l | sed s/Ohlfs/Helvetica/ | dwrite

SEE ALSO
       dread(1), dremove(1), csh(1)

NeXT Computer, Inc.	       February 28, 1989		     DWRITE(1)

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