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Is there a way to read the windows (95, 98, 2000, NT) registry using PBDOS3.5?
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Walt Decker -
Certainly, but how? Check the "Web Links" section of the site for Ralf Brown's
home page. If it's not in his legendary interrupt list, you may need a Windows
process to act as a server for your DOS client. You'd need to write that in a
Windows language such as PB/CC or PB/DLL.
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Tom Hanlin
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And to read the 32-bit registry, that Windows server will need to be a 32-bit Windows program.
I was trying to read the 32-bit registry from a 16-bit Windows program, and it is really, really hairy to do, as you need to go through multiple "thunks".
It's not easy at all: I gave up and SHELLed a 32-bit program; which is, by the way, another way to do this.
From you DOS program, you can SHELL a PB/CC or PB/DLL (32) program and write the data to file which you then read from your DOS program.
MCM
Michael Mattias
Tal Systems (retired)
Port Washington WI USA
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Thank you, Tom and Michael. I'm already using PB/DLL to read the registry and write it to a file. However, I've run into a small problem with Windows 2000 Pro in that the PB/DLL hangs when called from the DOS app.
Oh, well, I guess I'll figure something out.
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Walt DeckerComment
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That has to be something specific with your app - I SHELL to PB/DLL app's from DOS code very frequently - no problems.
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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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No, Lance, it has nothing to do with the app. Shelling works fine on 95 and 98.
It might have to do with my version of Win2000 Pro.
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Walt DeckerComment
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Lance generally uses Win2k also. There are no known problems such as you
describe involving any of the PowerBASIC compilers. You may wish to take
this up with tech support.
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Tom Hanlin
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