* Igor Pechtchanski (2005-10-26 16:13 +0100) > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:26:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>>* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2005-10-26 00:45 +0100) >>>> Quoting Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>>> See "man mount". Please, please, please don't manipulate the registry >>>>> directly if you want to stay portable. You can easily create a batch file >>>>> to reproduce the mounts properly. >>>>> ... >>>>> "User mounts" is the answer. The CURRENT_USER tree is usually writable. >>>>> Make sure you don't write over the existing settings if they are present. >>>> >>>> Current XP computers I am trying to run this into give me: "Registry >>>> Editing has been Disabled by your administrator." even if I try to >>>> write to Current_User >>>> >>>> All I am trying to keep portable is the X server thus XWIN.exe is the >>>> only executable I have, the only one I execute. After running the X >>>> server as the background server I am tunneling the packets using >>>> Putty / Securecrt. >>> >>>Try "regedit /s" in a batch (instead of double clicking). This >>>sometimes works. >> >> Or, I dunno, if that works, you could just use "mount" and forget about >> regedit entirely. >> >> It's a crazy idea, I know. I wonder why no one has thought of it before. > > Yeah, what's with this "mount" thing, anyway? I mean, it's got to be, > like, at least 10 *KILOBYTES* (gasp)! I don't have that kind of space on > my flash drive! And all this command-line scripting -- yuk, much better > to use a GUI like regedit!
You can use regedit perfectly without a gui: regedit /s, regedit /e > It's not like the mounts aren't currently in > the registry, anyway... Besides, importing a .reg file lets me bash right > over the existing settings without a care in the world -- mount actually > allows *saving* the current config, and who would want THAT? Now guess what: regedit allows the same. Even with a single command and without repeated mount commands. -- 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/