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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Chooser Name?
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Date: 9 Feb 91 04:42:34 GMT
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In article <1991Feb8.134003.2622@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>, yomy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
> 
> I thought that I remembered seeing this somewhere, so excuse me if this has
> already been discussed.  How do you find out what the chooser name is of the
> computer your program is running on.  I can't seem to find this anywhere in
> inside Mac.  For what it's worth I am programming in Pascal.

VAR
	userName : stringHandle;

    userName := GetString(-16096);


It's stored as a string ("STR ") resource in the System file.

-- michael


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