Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:13:34 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tlambert@primenet.com Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration Message-ID: <199806291813.NAA17351@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <199806271900.MAA15753@antipodes.cdrom.com> <199806282320.QAA14794@usr07.primenet.com>
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In article <199806282320.QAA14794@usr07.primenet.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote: >Heh. Actually, I almost have code for reading and writing the >Windows 95 registry under FreeBSD. I decided to do it after >someone who didn't know what they were talking about told me it >wasn't possible. I figured it's be useful for Windows 95 emulation >anyway, so I figured "what the heck?". > >So if you *really* want a "Windows style Registry"... Actually, you know, a registry implemented as Windows-style INI files would be pretty easy to hand-edit OR machine-edit. It's one of the few things that Microsoft came up with (if they did, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they just appropriated something some app was using) that's actually reasonably well designed. And it'd make it REALLY easy to slip Samba in... -- This is The Reverend Peter da Silva's Boring Sig File - there are no references to Wolves, Kibo, Discordianism, or The Church of the Subgenius in this document To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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