Hi! Wine had support for reading win2000 registry files once. It was dropped some time ago. I had implemented it around 1999/2000.
Have a look in the CVS. Bye Juergen > Hi Martin, > Thanks for this info. It looks like this might work. How do I contact > Eric Kohl? > > Thanks, > James > > On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 17:57 +0200, Martin Fuchs wrote: > > Hi James, > > > > > Last night Martin Fuchs suggested that we look into using ReactOS's > > > registry format in order to be compatible with Windows registry > > > databases. I have the latest release of ReactOS running on QEMU on my > > > box, so I checked it out. Basically, they're using the same regedit > > > program from Wine, missing find command and all (Which I too feel is a > > > pain in the neck). > > > > A bunch of dlls and applications are synced between Wine and ROS from > > time to time, also including regedit. What about implemting the > > missing find functionality at your own to bring both projects a little > > foreward? ;-) > > > > > > > I looked at the config stuff, and I found what looked > > > like some binary database files for each of the main registry sections. > > > Unfortunately, there's no documentation at all on any of this on their > > > website. > > > > I can forward you a mail from Steven Edwards to bring a bit light into > > this issue: > > > > S> I think ReactOS's registry is binary compatible with NT4. It and > > the windows 2000 format was > > S> documented/reversed for samba and the linux ntchpwd bootdisk > > projects. If I remeber right Eric > > S> Kohl offered to release some of his work to Wine for the binary > > format so you might want to ping > > S> him about the implementation details. > > > > So Eric Kohl would be the right man to ask about the internals of NT's > > registry format. > > > > > If we decide to go this route, we may be in for a hell of a lot > > > of work. But, I do agree with all of your points. I think the current > > > system could use some improvement, especially in the area of searching. > > > Let me know what you think of all this. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Martin > > >