From: jstacey AT plato DOT wadham DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (J-P)
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Subject: Re: User login name ?
Date: 18 Jul 2000 19:40:10 +0100
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In article <bw1d5.17053$pD2 DOT 338143 AT news DOT tpnet DOT pl>,
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.

J-P