Re: 1.5.25: Regtool can not find registry?

[Christian Franke <Christian dot Franke at t-online dot de>]

Josef Wolf wrote:
> But then I decided to remove and reinstall it.  (I reinstalled cygwin
> only, not the whole machine).  Since the reinstall, regtool refuses to
> work.  It always complains that it can not find the specified file.
> Strange enough, cygcheck _is_ able to read information from the
> registry.
>
> Here are examples of what I get:
>
>   $ regtool get '/HKLM/SOFTWARE/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin
>   Error (2): Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.
>   $ regtool get '/HKLM/SOFTWARE/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v2'
>   Error (2): Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.
>
> Any ideas how to track down this problem?
>
>   

There is no problem in the above commands. Both pathnames specify 
existing registry keys, but 'regtool get' reads registry values, which 
don't exist in this case.

The following should work:

$ regtool list '/HKLM/SOFTWARE/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v2'
/
/usr/bin
/usr/lib
cygdrive prefix
cygdrive flags

$ regtool get '/HKLM/SOFTWARE/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v2/cygdrive 
prefix'
/cygdrive


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Christian Franke


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