cygwin and windows registry
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
lhall@rfk.com
Sun May 11 16:26:00 GMT 2003
Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * John (2003-05-09 13:36 +0200)
>
>>On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 12:18:48PM +0100, Vince Hoffman wrote:
>>
>>>if just want the bare essentials (no unixlike environment) and you realy
>>>dont want it in the registry then you can refer to everything by
>>>/cygpath/${driveletter}
>>>[...]
>
>
>>Thanks for the tip. What i wanted to do was to run procmail and mutt.
>>The reason I'd like it not to interfere with the registry is that i'm
>>not the Admin and the alternative is to use Outlook
>
>
> So what? HKEY_CURRENT_USER is all yours. Just select "Install For Just
> Me". Doh.
Right. Just note that this means services (crond, sshd, etc) can't
be run as SYSTEM as described in the documentation.
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