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From: ssdesai@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Sunil S. Desai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Clipper - DOS variable help needed.
Keywords: Clipper, DOS
Message-ID: <Jan.10.14.08.52.1990.10441@elbereth.rutgers.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 90 19:08:57 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Hi!
This is for Clipper programmers.  How do you access DOS variable from
Clipper application?

I am writing a network application that need to know the user name for
certain operations.  What I am trying to do is use DOS SET command to 
SET USER=SUNIL from NetWare login script and then read USER variable from
Clipper to do some operations.

I have Funcky and NetLib clipper libraries.  Funcky does not have any
functions to access DOS variables.  NetLib has a Whoami function that
can return the user's login name but I am trying to avoid extra overhead
of linking NetLib library for just one function. 

Any suggestions or pointers to such utility are most welcome.

Thanks in advance.

sunil
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