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


I had written:
> 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

Mystery is done. There are two kinds of .REG file: ANSI and Unicode. The
Regedit tool on WinXP exports keys to .REG files as Unicode, naturally. 

Furthermore it is a known thing that the REGEDIT tool included in
Win95/98 is *not capable* of *importing* a key that contains a
REG_EXPAND_SZ datum. It is either a bug or a missing feature, depending
on who you read. 

I downloaded a trial version of Resplendent Registrar
(http://www.resplendence.com) which seems like a kick-a** tool, and made
the needed additions to the Registry using that tool instead of via a
.REG file. For the purposes of Win9x, all that Perl hacking was for
nought. 

Microsoft strikes again.

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