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  3. November 2007

Re: Getting the Windows current user

Mark Villa wrote:
Ah Yes, the SID... I should have remembered that.
as you say, %USERNAME%, would be perfect
but I can not see a ay to get that from a somple "C" program compile.,
I do not want to use the DOS shell or copy/paste/grep.etc. froma text
file.

IIRC, you should be able to get that by doing a simple
getenv("USERNAME") call.

david


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