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Date:	Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:20:00 +0000
From:	Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: (fwd) Compression
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Hello.

> > Can we tweak the registry from a dos program?
> 
> >From the libwin library readme:
> 
> So it seems to allow registry access, never tried to do it.

	The registry access library, Regdos, works well. I've used it quite a lot now
- libwin, libsocket. However, it will only work in a Windows 9x DOS box as it
uses the VWIN32 virtual device driver.
 
	I know there is a version of regedit that runs under plain DOS 7. I don't
know whether this uses built-in functions of Win95's DOS 7 or has its own code
that access the registry files directly.

> The copyright of the library is LGPL:

	This isn't entirely true. The library is LGPL, but you have to acknowledge
the Regdos Group who actually wrote the registry code. It was written by
Alfons Hoogervorst, George Foot and others. I haven't been able to access
Alfons Hoogervorst's page to download Regdos recently, as it's being
redesigned.

	I can mail anyone the source ZIP file if they'd like it. However, it might be
worth putting it in the v2tk/ directory. The code isn't DJGPP-only - it should
compile with most 16-bit DOS/32-bit DOS/Windows compilers.

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