From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Odp: User login name ?
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:55:22 +0100
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Hello.

Piotr Eljasiak wrote:
> 
> > 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.
[snip]
> This way it'll work under NT, but what about WinXX ?

It will work under Windows 2000 too. Here's a list of environment
variables that were set on a Win2k Advanced Server box:

ALLUSERSPROFILE=D:\Documents and Settings\All Users
APPDATA=D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data
CommonProgramFiles=D:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=CAWINTOOK-COMPU
ComSpec=D:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
HOMEDRIVE=D:
HOMEPATH=\
LOGONSERVER=\\CAWINTOOK-COMPU
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
OS=Windows_NT
Os2LibPath=D:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;
Path=D:\WINNT\system32;D:\WINNT;D:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;D:\Program
Files\Support Tools\;C:\READIBMW
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 1 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0109
ProgramFiles=D:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
SystemDrive=D:
SystemRoot=D:\WINNT
TEMP=D:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
TMP=D:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
USERDNSDOMAIN=[!!! removed, but of form "some.host.org" !!!]
USERDOMAIN=CAWINTOOK_DOM
USERNAME=Administrator
USERPROFILE=D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator
windir=D:\WINNT

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
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