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From: "Dennis McCunney" <mccunney AT bellatlantic DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: ksh93? -- also u/win question
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 00:10:39 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of
> Christopher Faylor
> Sent: 2001. February 7. 23:57
> To: Cygwin
> Subject: Re: ksh93? -- also u/win question

...

> >it will mount the registry as a filesystem.
>
> I've always thought that this was an interesting idea.  Someone (Egor
> Duda?) has indicated that it isn't as easy as it sounds.  I think that
> someone has actually done a proof of concept of this, too.

I got a utility from an Italian site that would put the registry in My
Computer, and let you view/manipulate it via an Explorer style interface.
It was hedged about with "Danger! If you don't know what you're doing, don't
muck about with this!" warnings.

> >Now whether this is a good idea or not is certainly debateable.  Can
> >you imagine the enraged emails from newbies that have just trashed
> >their OS install after manipulating the registry?
>
> Shudder.

I'd like to _think_ such folks wouldn't be installing U/WIN in the first
place, but I've been wrong before...

> cgf
______
Dennis



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