CREGINFO(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, this is creginfo — and yes we are in the LOCAL manual, welcome 💅 — and what it does is determines information about a Windows 9x/Me Registry File (CREG). that's it. that's the whole job. and it ate. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

creginfo [-c codepage] [-hHvV] source

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so real talk: creginfo is a utility whose whole entire personality is determining information about a Windows 9x/Me Registry File (CREG). no cap. that's the assignment and it does it. 🔥

it's not out here alone either — creginfo is part of the libcreg package, and libcreg is a library that accesses the Windows 9x/Me Registry File (CREG) format. so they're giving library + tool, a whole duo, a little main character energy together 🫶

• source — this is the source file. like, the file you wanna know about. that one. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

the options are literally as follows, and I'm listing every single one because we don't gatekeep here:

• -c codepage — specify the codepage of ASCII strings. your options are: ascii, windows-874, windows-932, windows-936, windows-949, windows-950, windows-1250, windows-1251, windows-1252 (this one is the default, periodt), windows-1253, windows-1254, windows-1255, windows-1256, windows-1257 or windows-1258. pick your fighter 🌈
• -h — shows this help. a lil "help me" moment, we love to see it 🙈
• -H — shows the key and value hierarchy. the whole tree structure, the family tree, the lore 💀
• -v — verbose output to stderr. it gets chatty. it gets detailed. gossip mode activated 👑
• -V — print version. tell me who you are bestie 🎀

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

None.

like... none. no environment variables. nothing to set. the vibes are self-contained. 💜

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🍓 FILES 🍓

None.

no config files, no dotfiles, no little secrets hiding in your home directory. clean. pristine. iconic. ✨

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

here's the vibe check, verbatim:

# creginfo SYSTEM.DAT
creginfo -H 20210617

Windows 9x/Me Registry File information:
        Version:        1.3

Key hierarchy
(key:) $$$PROTO.HIV
 (key:) AppEvents
  (key:) EventLabels
   (key:) .Default
    (value: 0) (default)
      ...

see that? that's the key hierarchy unfolding like a little registry flower 🌸 and the ... at the end is just it going and so on, bestie, you get it. 🫶

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💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

okay so listen: errors, verbose and debug output get printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. that's the rule. 📢

and — important, no cap — verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation. so if you're not seeing the chatter, it's not you, it's the build. 😭

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🔥 BUGS 🔥

found a bug? a little glitch? something giving unhinged? please report bugs of any kind on the project issue tracker:

https://github.com/libyal/libcreg/issues

we don't do silent suffering here, we do GitHub issues. 💅

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

these man pages were written by Joachim Metz. thank you for your service king 👑

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright 2013-2021, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>. this is free software; see the source for copying conditions. there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

read that last bit again bestie. no warranty. none. not even the merchantability one. it's giving "use at your own risk" and it means it. 💖

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• libcreg

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and that's the whole page, you're so welcome 🫶 this one ships with the libcreg package, dated June 17, 2021, and the manual page itself is creginfo() — mwah, slay, go read your registry files responsibly 💖✨🎀