Path: utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!cs4g6ag
From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Clipper - DOS variable help needed.
Keywords: Clipper, DOS
Message-ID: <25AE3EDC.13629@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 12 Jan 90 20:32:28 GMT
References: <Jan.10.14.08.52.1990.10441@elbereth.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <Jan.10.14.08.52.1990.10441@elbereth.rutgers.edu> ssdesai@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Sunil S. Desai) writes:
$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.

   From the Clipper Summer '87 manual, "Summary of Clipper Functions", page
6-8:

GETE(<expC>)
	Returns the contents of a DOS environment variable specified by
	<expC> as a character string.

   So, you'd just do something like

USERNAME = GETE ("USER")
DO CASE
CASE USER = "SUNIL"
:
:
:
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Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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