Convert Registry

Andriy Palamarchuk apa3a at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 26 09:58:15 CDT 2002


--- Friedrich Slivovsky <flak at nevox.org> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have some problems here converting my WinXP
> registry to wine. Neither of the export options in
> regedit.exe seem to provide the appropriate input
> file format for regapi. So "regapi setValue <
> registry.reg" wont do anything.
> "more registry.reg" displays the file in a human
> readable format, however, when I redirect the output
> into a new file or pipe it to an editor, it is
> binary again.
> 
> So what I need is a command to convert .reg files
> (or any binary files) to text.
> 
> I'd be glad if someone could help me out,

You can export registry on Windows with following call
to Windows regedit:
regedit /e export.reg

Move this file to Linux and import with Wine regedit
as:
regedit export.reg.

Andriy

Boston, MA

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