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RE: regtool problem


>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au
>>[mailto:luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au]
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 8:19 AM
>>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>>Subject: Re: regtool problem
>>
>>
>>On  7 May, To: cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:
>>>  What I really want, actually, is grepreg, so I can say: 
>>>   
>>>  	grepreg word\.exe 
>>
>>The reason I want that is, finding the installed path of an executable
>>in something like MS Office, where there are many different versions
>>and which can be in different places in the registry, is a pain if you
>>have to walk the registry tree to try to find it.


The way I do this is export the registry using regedit and then use
reasonable (i.e. text) tools on it.

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