RE: CygPath to Clipboard (was: example needed pls ...)

["Stephan Mueller" <smueller at Exchange dot Microsoft dot com>]

Looks like it's the hex-encoded representation of some Unicode text
(each character is a 16-bit entity).  For plain ASCII values (e.g.
English text), yes, you'll see every other byte as a zero.

stephan();



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From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
Of Soren A.
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 12:08 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: CygPath to Clipboard (was: example needed pls ...)


Yes, a bit OT, but could be useful to understand more about it...

Soren A <somian@adelphia.net> wrote in
Xns93ACAEA0E9DBEsoren1Gmane@80.91.224.249:">news:Xns93ACAEA0E9DBEsoren1Gmane@80.91.224.249:
> I cannot get the Registry to accept the entries now! Each time I try I

> get the keys created OK, but the "command" is undefined (I am writing 
> of how we see the Registry in "regedit").

Still no joy. On a WinXP system (the other I refer to is Win98) I used
the regedit tool to look at some REG_EXPAND_SZ entries already in the
Registry, and exported a key for examination. What I discover if I do
this seems *BIZARRE* (but we are talking about Microsoft here so nothing
ought to surprise us). I see the string of hex bytes exported as we have
been discussing, but each one _is followed by a null byte_. Thus one
entry I examined looks like this:

 
"TEMP"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,0
0,74,\  
  00,25,00,5c,00,54,00,45,00,4d,00,50,00,00,00

Do you see what I mean? "25,00,53,00,79,00: ... . If *that's* the format
RegEdit expects (and it could have changed between 98 and XP, anyone
know?) then it would certainly explain why I haven't been able to get
any subsequent tries to work.

Even the terminating null is followed by a null.

Now I am scratching my head so hard my hairline is imperiled...

   Soren A.

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