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Re: /dev/registry
- From: "Jon Foster" <jon at jon-foster dot co dot uk>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:44:38 -0000
- Subject: Re: /dev/registry
- References: <014a01c1acc9$7324cc80$0100a8c0@advent02>
Hi,
"Chris January" <chris@atomice.net> wrtote:
> How about adding a /dev/registry fhandler to Cygwin?
> Registry keys would be directories and values in the
> registry files.
UWIN (a commercial alternative to cygwin) has
something similar. See
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
They use /reg, but I agree that /dev/registry or
/proc/registry would be better.
Regards,
Jon Foster
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