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<refmeta>
	<refentrytitle>regdiff</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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<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: 
					w95, nt4, gconf, 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>

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