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Yeah, I saw that. My point is that the registry wasn't designed for that.

I'll be the same as complaining that the format of the /etc files is not well document, is not standard across different flavors of UNIX and everyone sticks whatever they want there.

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It isn't really the same. Anyone that needs access to something in /etc can get what they're looking for without having the first pierce a difficult binary format. Deciphering what they get back is another issue, but typically it's just a text file, so you can generally figure out how to parse it if you need to.

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