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Date:	Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:31:02 +0100 (BST)
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> > Conversely is there a way to determine the type when reading?  It
> > appears that Cygwin does what you expect (e.g. returning a \0 delimited
> > list for REG_MULTI_SZ) but is there any way to ask it directly?
> 
> Not that I know of.  Look at fhandler_registry.cc for implementation
> details.

Suggestion to those who know about these things: being able to go

file /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/blahblahblah

and have it return the type would be way cool. Or would that involve a 
really ugly hack?

Andrew.



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