<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> <refentry id="regdiff.1"> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>regdiff</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>1</manvolnum> </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname>regdiff</refname> <refpurpose>Diff program for Windows registry files</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <cmdsynopsis> <command>regdiff</command> <arg choice="opt">--help</arg> <arg choice="opt">--backend=BACKEND</arg> <arg choice="opt">--backend=BACKEND</arg> <arg choice="opt">--credentials=CREDENTIALS</arg> <arg choice="opt">--credentials=CREDENTIALS</arg> <arg choice="opt">location</arg> <arg choice="opt">location</arg> </cmdsynopsis> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsect1> <title>DESCRIPTION</title> <para>regdiff compares two Windows registry files key by key and value by value and generates a text file that contains the differences between the two files.</para> <para>A file generated by regdiff can later be applied to a registry file by the regpatch utility. </para> <para>regdiff and regpatch use the same file format as the regedit32.exe utility from Windows.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>OPTIONS</title> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term>--help</term> <listitem><para> Show list of available options.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>--backend BACKEND</term> <listitem><para>Name of backend to load. Possible values are: creg, regf, dir and rpc. The default is <emphasis>dir</emphasis>. </para> <para> This argument can be specified twice: once for the first registry file and once for the second. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>--credentials=CREDENTIALS</term> <listitem><para> Credentials to use, if any. Password should be separated from user name by a percent sign. </para> <para> This argument can be specified twice: once for the first registry file and once for the second. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>VERSION</title> <para>This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>SEE ALSO</title> <para>gregedit, regshell, regpatch, regtree, samba, patch, diff</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>AUTHOR</title> <para>This utility is part of the <ulink url="http://www.samba.org/">Samba</ulink> suite, which is developed by the global <ulink url="http://www.samba.org/samba/team/">Samba Team</ulink>.</para> <para>This manpage and regdiff were written by Jelmer Vernooij. </para> </refsect1> </refentry>