Re: [MacPerl] who is logged on

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 10.35 10/22/97, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
>"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).

Don't matter to me, I only use 'Pudge' as my owner name in File Sharing ... :-)

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