Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/07/08/03:31:47
So any reason, why not to use regtool ?
Soren A wrote:
> I had written:
>> Thus one
>> entry I examined looks like this:
>>
>>
> "TEMP"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,
> 6f,00,6f,0
>> 0,74,\
>> 00,25,00,5c,00,54,00,45,00,4d,00,50,00,00,00
>
> Mystery is done. There are two kinds of .REG file: ANSI and Unicode.
> The Regedit tool on WinXP exports keys to .REG files as Unicode,
> naturally.
>
> Furthermore it is a known thing that the REGEDIT tool included in
> Win95/98 is *not capable* of *importing* a key that contains a
> REG_EXPAND_SZ datum. It is either a bug or a missing feature,
> depending on who you read.
>
> I downloaded a trial version of Resplendent Registrar
> (http://www.resplendence.com) which seems like a kick-a** tool, and
> made the needed additions to the Registry using that tool instead of
> via a .REG file. For the purposes of Win9x, all that Perl hacking was
> for nought.
>
> Microsoft strikes again.
>
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> defenseless planet has my MONSTROSITY been unleashed?"
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