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From: murphy@ufp.dco.dec.com (Rick Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.lang.c,vmsnet.misc
Subject: Re: VAX-C question on passwords
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.220834@ufp.dco.dec.com>
Date: 25 Aug 90 02:13:14 GMT
References: <1990Aug24.220621.2506@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1990Aug24.220621.2506@athena.mit.edu>, seaotter@athena.mit.edu
(Stacy L Ramirez) writes:
>I am looking (without access to decent manuals, of course :-( for
>the VMS/VAX-C equivalent of the following unix C code:
>
>	if (( pp = getpwuid(getuid()) == NULL ) {
>		pwdir = "???";
>		login = "???";
>	}
>	else {
>		pwdir = pp->pw_dir;
>		login = pp->pw_name;
>	}
>

#ifdef VMS
    pwdir = getenv("HOME");
    login = getenv("USER");
#endif
If you want the CURRENT directory the user is in, that's getenv("PATH").
getenv also can be used to translate logicals and DCL symbols.
	-Rick
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