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,

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Richard Dawe
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