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veru
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 Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:05 am Post subject: Home Directory |
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Hi,
how do I retrieve the Home directory of the current user?
thanks,
verena |
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SergeM
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Cybb20
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| DannyB wrote: |
This works on Linux. It will always return the pathname "/home/danny". A similar technique would probably work on Windows, assuming that Windows has an environment variable sthat points to your home directory. |
Yes it has:
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msgbox Environ("USERPROFILE")
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veru
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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Great! Thank you all for your answers.
| Code: | | Environ("USERPROFILE") |
was exactly what I was looking for.
thanks,
Verena |
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