Need user name, not computer name

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Dec 22 22:14:48 EST 2003


Ken Ray wrote:

> On 12/22/03 3:35 PM, "    Mark Powell" <Mark.Powell at veritas.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> How can I determine one's user name?
>>> 
>>> What platform(s), Mark?
>> 
>> Windows, please.
> 
> Well, I just checked in WinXP, and $USERNAME returned "Ken", my user name on
> the system. So can anyone who is *not* on WinXP verify that $USERNAME works
> to retrieve the user's name?

$USERNAME is not listed in the globalNames in Win95 (I knew I kept that
systme running for a reason <g>).

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 Richard Gaskin 
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