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> >   Claw.Registry, OTOH, would be bizarre to try to port to an OS with
> > nothing similar to Windows Registry.
>  If it maps to an underlying OS feature, you use that.  If not, there
>  would have to be some stand-alone "fake it out" underlying implementation
  Isn't that called a "Windows emulator for Linux" or such?  A non-trivial
undertaking, although a few years ago, IIRC, somebody reported Claw programs
running on such a thing.  (I don't know if that included Registry use.)