Re: [MacPerl] who is logged on

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

"Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pjstoaster.pg.md.us> writes:
>Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> writes:
>}I can offer you one certain and one uncertain promise:
>}
>} - What is certain is that in MacPerl 5.1.5, $ENV{USER} will be defined as
>}   the user name entered in the Sharing Setup Control Panel.
>
>Gack.  How about the lower case last name of the user name entered in the
>Sharing Setup CP?  Otherwise I'm just going to have to override it all the
>time.

Hmm. I'm amenable to discussion on such an algorithm, provided that is stated
explicitly and a majority of people agree to it :-)

(I'll also investigate a possibility of defining environment variables in a
more general way, analogous to the "Library" preference setting).

Matthias

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