Re: libc + some other stuff

Hi,

try to use enviroment variables.

Env-Var		Value
==========================
HOME		Home-Directory of current user
LOGNAME		Name of current user
HOSTNAME	Name of Host

There is an easy way to get the values of that env-vars via the RTL of
kylix (?funtion envvariable(name:string):string?). I can't tell you the
name of the function (haven't installed kylix on this comp), but it is
in the System-Unit and it is very simple to use.

CU,

Henock

Am Mon, 2002-06-17 um 10.03 schrieb cricque: i was searching for a way
to get the username of whom started the application & hostname of the pc
the app was running on in Kylix 2 Enterprise
Edition on Redhat 7.3

and i found how to do it, add libc to uses clause & use some functions
from libc, is this libc documented somewhere, cause i can get
the username & hostname now, but the rest of the stuff is a bit cryptic
:)

in 99% of the cases homedir is /home/+username, but there are other
cases

is there  any way to retrieve the current users homedir ?

or if anyone has some more info about the libc functions available :)

then another question, will this only work for libc, or can you use like
any library available on your linux system ?


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