Need user name, not computer name

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Mon Dec 22 21:49:51 EST 2003


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?


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com




More information about the use-livecode mailing list