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Brian Dessent wrote:

> I suppose a way to reconcile these would be a utility that you call from
> ~/.profile that enumerates the list of environ key/value pairs from the
> registry and installs them into the process' environment.  

That's an interesting idea.

regtool list -v "/machine/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session 
Manager/Environment"

and

regtool list -v "/user/Environment"

Thanks!  At least the germ of an idea (it'll need some work, obviously; 
putting all the settings again into .bash_profile is probably a lot 
easier :-).


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