Orcle NT Registry settings

In working with different NT client machines in our company we have had occasional need to export the Oracle registry settings from HKLM and import them to another pc. I have noticed that, while the exported .REG file is always an ASCII text file, sometimes the key values are clear text and other times they are given in hex format. I eventually traced this down to how the values are defined in the registry. If they are defined as REG_EXPAND_SZ they get exported as hex pairs, while if they are defined as REG_SZ they get exported as clear text. Either way, it doesn’t seem to impact the operation of the client machine. I never would have found the difference if I hadn’t gone back to use REGEDT32 instead of REGEDIT, which I normally prefer.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what is going on here?

Ed Stevens
Nissan Motor Mfg. Corp., USA

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