Re: [MacPerl] Three questions (corrected)

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

>At 22:35 -0600 2/18/98, Paul DuBois wrote:
>>(1) Can I get a Macintosh's owner name from MacPerl?  (The owner name
>>as specified in the File Sharing control panel -- possibly the same
>>thing as what used to be known as the chooser name.)  I presume this
>>can be gotten as one of the Internet Config values, but can it be
>>done if IC isn't installed?
>
>'STR ' resource id -16413
>
>(It's in the System file in the ordinary case, so it should always be
>available.)
>
>Inside Mac--More Macintosh Toolbox page 1-127 (which lists several other
>useful things).
>
>I don't think this part of IM has been repealed...it likely doesn't carry
>into "yellow box" (but I don't much care).
>

Sorry for the self-answer.

I cleverly listed the *machine* name, not the *owner* name, which is
'STR ' resource id -16096

And Chris Nandor wisely points out the better way:
$ENV{USER}

I managed to make that mistake whilst reading the book.  Sigh!

   --John

--
John Baxter (Born before ENIAC, but not by much.)
   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA



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