From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 29 11:14:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05037 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:14:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mushi.colo.neosoft.com (qmailr@mushi.colo.neosoft.com [206.109.6.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA04968 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:13:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@taronga.com) Received: (qmail 4410 invoked from network); 29 Jun 1998 18:13:37 -0000 Received: from bonkers.neosoft.com (HELO bonkers.taronga.com) (root@206.109.2.48) by mushi.colo.neosoft.com with SMTP; 29 Jun 1998 18:13:37 -0000 Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA17351; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:13:34 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:13:34 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Message-Id: <199806291813.NAA17351@bonkers.taronga.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tlambert@primenet.com Newsgroups: taronga.freebsd.hackers Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration References: <199806271900.MAA15753@antipodes.cdrom.com> <199806282320.QAA14794@usr07.primenet.com> Organization: none Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199806282320.QAA14794@usr07.primenet.com>, Terry Lambert 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