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On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:13:36PM +0000, Saurabh T wrote:
>I ran the 
>regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 1024
>command from
>http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html
>
>After this
>regtool -v list /HKLM/Software/Cygwin
>shows nothing.

In that case you're probably doing something wrong.  At the very least,
you aren't following the guidelines suggested here:

http://cygwin.com/problems.html

>Appears regtool has a different syntax than what's shown on the page.
>
>(a) How do I get my previous settings (default, cygwin 1.7) back?  Is
>there any problem not having the registry values in there?
>(b) Whom do I kick for writing faulty documentation?

I'd suggest reading this link, referenced at the above web page:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

cgf

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