From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 30 21:28:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA20502 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:28:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20496 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:28:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-54.camalott.com [208.229.74.54]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA05520; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:24:20 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02804; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:24:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:24:39 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199807010424.XAA02804@detlev.UUCP> To: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu CC: tlambert@primenet.com, peter@taronga.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980629203933.13968@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> (message from John-Mark Gurney on Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:39:33 -0700) Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199806291813.NAA17351@bonkers.taronga.com> <199806291958.MAA04488@usr08.primenet.com> <19980629203933.13968@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> The reason for the Windows 95 registry implementation was the explosive >> proliferation of .INI files. I would hate for FreeBSD to go down that > hun? I thought win31 had a registry too, it's just that apps didn't > use/didn't have access to the registry... I remeber running regedit > on a win31 box... Win 3.1 did have a registry, accessable to apps (otherwise how would regedit work?). It was the equivilent of the Win32 registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. (If you use regedit /v you will see a little bit more clearly the hierarchal structure.) All it stored was information about file types and OLE servers; preferences were still in INI files. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message