Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?

On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 19:51:52 -0400, DFS wrote:

You've been able to read the Registry since the beginning with VB/A or
C# or C++.

With special APIs. Normal file-manipulation commands cannot be used with
the Registry. On *nix systems, config files are just ordinary text files,
just located in a special directory, nothing more -- the same file-
manipulation commands work with those files as they work with any other
files.

In particular, you can use your choice of text editor to examine/modify
them. And standard tools like diff and patch to manage changes and
propagate them from one installation to another.

Some sysadmins even put their entire /etc directory under version control.

Dimdows, of course, has never heard of any of this.