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-hivex - by Richard W.M. Jones, rjones@redhat.com
-Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Red Hat Inc.
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-
-This is a self-contained library for reading Windows Registry "hive"
-binary files.
-
-Unlike many other tools in this area, it doesn't use the textual .REG
-format for output, because parsing that is as much trouble as parsing
-the original binary format.  Instead it makes the file available
-through a C API, or there is a separate program to export the hive as
-XML.
-
-This library was derived from several sources:
-
- . NTREG registry reader/writer library by Petter Nordahl-Hagen
-    (LGPL v2.1 licensed library and program)
- . http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/WinReg.txt
- . dumphive (a BSD-licensed Pascal program by Markus Stephany)
- . http://www.sentinelchicken.com/data/TheWindowsNTRegistryFileFormat.pdf
- . editreg program from Samba - this program was removed in later
-   versions of Samba, so you have to go back in the source repository
-   to find it (GPLv2+)
- . http://amnesia.gtisc.gatech.edu/~moyix/suzibandit.ltd.uk/MSc/
- . reverse engineering the format (see hivex/tools/visualizer.ml)
-
-Like NTREG, this library only attempts to read Windows NT registry
-files (ie. not Windows 3.1 or Windows 95/98/ME).  See the link above
-for documentation on the older formats if you wish to read them.
-
-Unlike NTREG, this code is much more careful about handling error
-cases, corrupt and malicious registry files, and endianness.
-
-The license for this library is LGPL v2.1, but not later versions.
-For full details, see the file LICENSE in this directory.