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Hi,

I have a quick question about queries on the registry, "reg.exe" and 
regtool don't return the same format for the same value (respectively 
hexadecimal and decimal):

reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Intel\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion" /v 
"ProductVersion"

Returns: "ProductVersion REG_DWORD 0x177a03f8"

And

regtool.exe -q get 
"/HKLM/SOFTWARE/Intel/LANDesk/VirusProtect6/CurrentVersion/ProductVersion"

Returns: "393872376"

I'm interested in the hex value because it is useful to get the version 
of Symantec Antivirus: 0x177a (1016 => v10.1.6), 0x03f8 (patch 6010).

I found a workaround with "bc" to obtain the hexadecimal value directly:

regtool -q get "/HKLM/.../ProductVersion" | sed -e "s/^/obase=16;/" | bc

But I'm wondering what's the rule here? Is regtool always returning 
decimal values for REG_DWORD type? Is it possible to have the hex value 
with regtool directly?

All the best,

Nicolas

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