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Re: Python 2.7 and cmd on Windows 7 64 (files lost)

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> Therefore, Windows has a "trick" for mark the file like visible, or not,
> in 32 mode. What trick?

It's called file system redirection. When you access \windows\system32
in a 32-bit process, you *actually* access \windows\syswow64, which
has entirely different files.

The same also happens for parts of the registry.

Regards,
Martin

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Python 2.7 and cmd on Windows 7 64  (files lost) "Michel Claveau - MVP"<enleverLesX_XXmcX@XmclavXeauX.com.invalid> - 2011-06-23 08:33 +0200
  Re: Python 2.7 and cmd on Windows 7 64  (files lost) Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> - 2011-06-23 09:31 +0200
    Re: Python 2.7 and cmd on Windows 7 64  (files lost) "Michel Claveau - MVP"<enleverLesX_XXmcX@XmclavXeauX.com.invalid> - 2011-06-23 11:10 +0200
      Re: Python 2.7 and cmd on Windows 7 64  (files lost) "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@v.loewis.de> - 2011-06-24 09:34 +0200
  Re: Python 2.7 and cmd on Windows 7 64  (files lost) Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-06-23 08:31 +0100
    Re: Python 2.7 and cmd on Windows 7 64  (files lost) Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> - 2011-06-23 10:08 +0200
      Re: Python 2.7 and cmd on Windows 7 64  (files lost) Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-06-23 09:14 +0100

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