Re: [MacPerl] When is ENV{USER} set? (was Re: Three questions)

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 17.40 1998.03.04, Syd Bauman wrote:
>1) On a machine for which $ENV{USER} returned what I expected,
>   I changed the name via the control panel. Even after rebooting
>   the Mac, MacPerl still reported the old name.

Right.  It is initially set from those preferences, but then won't change
after that, as you might want to change it to something else.

>2) On a machine on which $ENV{USER} was returning the wrong info
>   (and what I believe to have been a previous user name on this
>   comoputer) I tried re-installing MacPerl from scratch. $ENV{USER}
>   was still the wrong value, the old name.

Did you delete the old MacPerl preferences from your Preferences folder?

HTH,

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