On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, andrew brian clegg wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > Conversely is there a way to determine the type when reading? It > > > appears that Cygwin does what you expect (e.g. returning a \0 delimited > > > list for REG_MULTI_SZ) but is there any way to ask it directly? > > > > Not that I know of. Look at fhandler_registry.cc for implementation > > details. > > Suggestion to those who know about these things: being able to go > > file /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/blahblahblah > > and have it return the type would be way cool. Or would that involve a > really ugly hack?
Kinda, 'cos `file' uses stock source (i.e. fileutils) and this would require changing it somewhat. It wouldn't be hard to add this as an option to regtool, however. Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB http://www.emcb.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/