Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "Dennis McCunney" To: Subject: RE: ksh93? -- also u/win question Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 00:10:39 -0500 Message-ID: <000301c0918e$9f6bce80$0650fea9@Arda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <20010207235705.B10637@redhat.com> Importance: Normal > -----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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple