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REGEDIT



Dear Robert  

In your letter to me re:Help Help with U2 installation dated Dec 24, 2004 in
referring to REGEDIT you wrote:

> the terminology here parallels that of the external windows registry, which i
thought was a good idea because it was familiar, and people would immediately know
what we were driving at.  one look at xywwweb.reg, and you know
1) it isn't the windows registry, and
2) it's simple configuration stuff -- filenames and locations, mainly, all xywrite-related. 
but instead, everything about it -- the nomenclature, the data inside -- seems to scare
people.  they should get un-scared.

You have total command of every aspect of windows and xywrite.  Most people on
the xywrite users  list don't have such a command and thus do not see as clearly
as you do that the REGEDIT  in the windows world and the REGEDIT in the Xywrite
world while using parallel terminology are different  programs or commands. 
As you yourself  pointed out this seems to scare people.  Since for whatever
reason there is much confusion and fear resulting from the term REGEDIT being
used to refer to two different commands or programs, one in the window world
and one in the xywrite world for those of us  who are not versed like you are
in every nuance of xywrite and windows why not rename REGEDIT in  the Xywrite
world so that you will not be imposed upon to keep repeating that the two
REGEDITs are  different. or that the registry referred to in the context of
U2 is not the windows registry

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