How to know my environmental variables ? 2

[ramani]

How to get my ....
OS, PATH, HOMEPATH, USERNAME, USERDOMAIN, USERPROFILE, SYSTEMDRIVE, SYSTEMROOT, computername ETC ETC. FROM WITHIN VFP...???

The GETENV("myEnvironmentalVariable&quot function returns the value of the environmental sttings of the system. But this is not very well documented, and many users resort to API functions.

To know which settings are available under the GETENV() function of VFP, can be obtained very easily in the following way.

Just reach the DOS prompt and type SET and press return key.
A list of variables with the values are listed. Now knowing the variables name, the values can be programatically obtained by using the code
myWantedVariableValue = GETENV("myEnvVariable&quot

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A windows API function call to know all the environmental settings is also available under the following thread...

http://www.universalthread.com/wconnect/wc.dll?UniversalThread

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Hope the tek users find this information useful. I am providing this under the FAQ also, so that many of the users searching FAQ can use this. ramani :-9
(Subramanian.G)
FoxAcc
ramani_g@yahoo.com

 

[TomasDill]

Hi!

But this is not very well documented, and many users resort to API functions.

ramani, I always used GetEnv(). I use this specially to get the Windows temporary folder (GetEnv('TEMP') or GetEnv('TMP')), that is usually set up by default in the Windows environment. And this functioon is very well documented in the MSDN help for VFP. It was always in help as far as I remember...
Vlad Grynchyshyn
vgryn@softserve.lviv.ua

http://www.softservecom.com

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