Sender: richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com Message-ID: <36F41100.77EBDCBD@meridian22.net> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:20:00 +0000 From: Richard Dawe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.1 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: (fwd) Compression References: (salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com 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.