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DREAD(1)							      DREAD(1)

NAME
       dread - read from the defaults database

SYNOPSIS
       dread -l
       dread [ owner ] name
       dread -g name
       dread -n name
       dread -o owner

DESCRIPTION
       dread looks through the user's defaults database for a variable and its
       associated value, and outputs this information to the standard  output.
       owner  is  the application associated with the variable name (owner may
       instead have the value ``GLOBAL'' or ``System'').

       The -l option displays all the variables	 and  default  values  in  the
       database.   To  display	a subset of the database, other options can be
       used instead:

       dread [ owner ] name
	      Searches for owner's  value  for	the  variable.	 If  no	 owner
	      application is specified, the owner GLOBAL is searched.

       dread -g name
	      Searches	the owner GLOBAL for a value of the variable.  This is
	      the same as using the previous option with no owner specified.

       dread -n name
	      Searches all possible owners for a value of the variable.

       dread -o owner
	      Searches the specifed owner application for the  values  of  all
	      its variables.

       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
       dwrite(1), dremove(1)

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

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