wine users - Mar 2001 - How to conver the windows registry to wine registries?

All,

This is a more difficult problem than it appears.  I would like to convert
the Windows registry that already exists on my machine over to Wine's
registry, but I don't see how that is going to be done since Wine will
look at its own registry and NOT the reg files on my Windows partition.

Do I need to drag the Windows reg files (and what are their names?) to
the WIne partition on my disk?  Or run a converter program?  I suspect
that my many woes with Wine are due to Wine not knowing the locations
of programs, resources and DLLs because these programs were not
installed on the disk using Wine but rather Windows.

-- John
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:19:48 -0500, John Nelson <john@computation.com>
wrote:
>All,
>
>This is a more difficult problem than it appears.
No it's easy if  you use regedit on your Windows
computer, and regapi on the Wine side (well,
if regapi has  not been broken since the last time
I tried it of course :-))

Gerard

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, John Nelson wrote:
> This is a more difficult problem than it appears.  I would like to convert
> the Windows registry that already exists on my machine over to Wine's
> registry, but I don't see how that is going to be done since Wine will
> look at its own registry and NOT the reg files on my Windows partition.
>
> Do I need to drag the Windows reg files (and what are their names?) to
> the WIne partition on my disk?  Or run a converter program?  I suspect
Read the documentation about wine.conf.  Win95 stores its registry in two
files,  USER.DAT and SYSTEM.DAT.  If Wine can see these,  it will
automatically read them in upon loading and merge the information with its
own registry-database files,  which are stored in plain-text form.

--
DLL