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Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:48:20 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: regtool problem
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On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:26:18AM +0200, Mellman Thomas wrote:
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
>>>[mailto:luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au]
>>>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 8:19 AM
>>>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>>>Subject: Re: regtool problem
>>>
>>>
>>>On  7 May, To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com wrote:
>>>>  What I really want, actually, is grepreg, so I can say: 
>>>>   
>>>>  	grepreg word\.exe 
>>>
>>>The reason I want that is, finding the installed path of an executable
>>>in something like MS Office, where there are many different versions
>>>and which can be in different places in the registry, is a pain if you
>>>have to walk the registry tree to try to find it.
>
>The way I do this is export the registry using regedit and then use
>reasonable (i.e. text) tools on it.

Gee, why not binary edit the disk partition using WordPad or something,
if you are trying to make work for yourself?

The mount command provides information on everything in the registry.
cygcheck also dumps the mount information.  Inspecting the registry
directly makes no more sense for cygwin than it does for any other
installed program on Windows.

cgf

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