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. -- "So, tell me, my little one-eyed one, on what poor, pitiful, defenseless planet has my MONSTROSITY been unleashed?" - Dr. Jumba, Disney's "Lilo & Stitch" OpenPGP Key at http://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=6050 -- 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/