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At 05:42 AM 4/14/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>And what would you call the Windows registry?
>
>The only thing people can do if the registry is damaged is reinstall
>everything.  That's always an option on any operating system, but
>(except in some bizarre situation) you never have to resort to that on
>FreeBSD.

The Windows Registry is an abomination. It puts all of a system's
eggs in one fragile, insecure basket.

--Brett Glass


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