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From: | Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: User login name ? |
Date: | Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:56:30 +0100 |
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Hello. J-P wrote: > > Piotr Eljasiak <eljasiak AT NO-SPAM DOT zt DOT gdansk DOT tpsa DOT pl> wrote: > > How can I get user login name ? getlogin() returns only value of env > > var either $USER or $LOGNAME, and none of these vars is set by the > > Win9x/NT4 system while user logging in. > > The environment variable USERNAME is, I think, set by NT: I don't have > WinXX to hand. If you can access environment variables, you can access > that one. Windows '95 doesn't seem to set this. The information is, however, stored in a registry key, which can be accessed from DOS programs running under Windows. libwin provides functionality to do this - please see: http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/mysoft.html#libwin Hope this helps, bye, -- Richard Dawe [ mailto:richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ]
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