Looks the registry manipulation in below mentioned manner creates REG_SZ registry entry. Is there a way to create registry entry type that is say REG_DWORD or REG_EXPAND_SZ? I would be more interested in the process that creates REG_EXPAND_SZ entry.
It also appears that '...' represents special semantics at the file system level in UWIN, true? I tried 'cd /reg/HKLM/SOFTWARE/AT&T Labs/UWIN/5.0/Install/' and then executing 'ls -al ...', 'ls -al .' or 'ls -al' did not display any contents. However, executing 'ls -al .../Home' gave me correct directory entry. I then tried to explore further and did 'cat ...' but it did not display all sub-keys in that hive. Executing 'cat .../Home', nonetheless, displayed value of that key. That leads me to believe that file system semantics cannot perform searches but you can display key value if you precisely know the entire path to the key. this sequence shows how you can use the ... special directory to write, read and delete name=value registry subkeys (win7-64-uwin) cat '/reg/HKLM/SOFTWARE/AT&T Labs/UWIN' Release=5.0 (win7-64-uwin) cat '/reg/HKLM/SOFTWARE/AT&T Labs/UWIN/.../Release' 5.0 (win7-64-uwin) cat '/reg/HKLM/SOFTWARE/AT&T Labs/UWIN/5.0/Install' Root=/C/Program Files/UWIN Home=/C/Users (win7-64-uwin) cat '/reg/HKLM/SOFTWARE/AT&T Labs/UWIN/5.0/Install/.../Home' /C/Users (win7-64-uwin) cat '/reg/HKLM/SOFTWARE/AT&T Labs/UWIN/5.0/Install/.../Test' cat: /reg/HKLM/SOFTWARE/AT&T Labs/UWIN/5.0/Install/.../Test: cannot open [No such file or directory] (win7-64-uwin) echo AHA > '/reg/HKLM/SOFTWARE/AT&T Labs/UWIN/5.0/Install/.../Test' (win7-64-uwin) cat '/reg/HKLM/SOFTWARE/AT&T Labs/UWIN/5.0/Install/.../Test' AHA (win7-64-uwin) cat '/reg/HKLM/SOFTWARE/AT&T Labs/UWIN/5.0/Install' Root=/C/Program Files/UWIN Home=/C/Users Test=AHA (win7-64-uwin) rm '/reg/HKLM/SOFTWARE/AT&T Labs/UWIN/5.0/Install/.../Test' (win7-64-uwin) cat '/reg/HKLM/SOFTWARE/AT&T Labs/UWIN/5.0/Install/.../Test' cat: /reg/HKLM/SOFTWARE/AT&T Labs/UWIN/5.0/Install/.../Test: cannot open [No such file or directory] (win7-64-uwin) cat '/reg/HKLM/SOFTWARE/AT&T Labs/UWIN/5.0/Install' Root=/C/Program Files/UWIN Home=/C/Users _______________________________________________ uwin-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/uwin-users
