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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 09:20:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: RE: registry question
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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I can think of one reason...portability.  Say you kept an install on nfs
and wanted to have access to it on any computer you went to.  It would be
handy in a university environment where you don't have access to/don't
want to modify the registry.  Of course I've never tried this personally,
but I'm sure others have.  As a possible solution, if you can access the
registry, you could find the keys that cygwin adds, then edit the cygwin
batch file to load/unload the keys as necessary.  In fact they did it at
my university to implement roaming profiles on 95/98.  I'm sure there are
other ways this could be achieved.

Cheers,
Nicholas

--- "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com> wrote:
> > From: John [mailto:lists AT shell DOT reiteration DOT net]
> > Subject: Re: registry question
> > Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> > > At 11:22 AM 5/30/2002, John wrote:
> > > >Quick question: can cygwin be installed on an NT machine 
> > > >without modifying the registry? 
> > > 
> > > No, there is currently no option to do this via setup.
> > 
> > Cheers for the quick reply Harry.
> > 
> > Is there a 'manual' way to setup that would not involve the setup
> tool?
> > Are registry keys required for cygwin to work? or is there a
> workaround?
>  Is there some reason you don't want to modify the registry?
> This request seems very strange to me.
> 
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