Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVZulq9BIh4WDsPR9Kj/yoDLbRgUGvhYhKG5aumozHqIzZxFGawg4NTz Message-ID: <3EBE741B.6020101@rfk.com> Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 12:02:35 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" Reply-To: lhall AT rfk DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thorsten Kampe CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin and windows registry References: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDAF7 AT EX-LONDON> <20030509113620 DOT GB55519 AT reiteration DOT net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * John (2003-05-09 13:36 +0200) > >>On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 12:18:48PM +0100, Vince Hoffman wrote: >> >>>if just want the bare essentials (no unixlike environment) and you realy >>>dont want it in the registry then you can refer to everything by >>>/cygpath/${driveletter} >>>[...] > > >>Thanks for the tip. What i wanted to do was to run procmail and mutt. >>The reason I'd like it not to interfere with the registry is that i'm >>not the Admin and the alternative is to use Outlook > > > So what? HKEY_CURRENT_USER is all yours. Just select "Install For Just > Me". Doh. Right. Just note that this means services (crond, sshd, etc) can't be run as SYSTEM as described in the documentation. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/