Fw: filepro / enviroment variables / putenv

[Rick Mitchell]

I read in March of 2005 the exchange between Ken , JP, and Brian concerning putenv commands.

I have used getenv to get the username from my novell server with no problems for years.

I realise there is and enviorment variable in my XP machines called username but that is the local pc's username, now the network id.

I would like to have a login processing that asks the person for their name and passes it to the environment variable on the pc.  I am successful in passing it and reading it in the same table, but once I exit that filepro dclerk session the variable seems to be lost.

login 

        1:
          :input aa "Enter your name"

        2:
          :putenv "DOOFUS",aa

        3:
          :exit


Once this is run doofus does not appear to the next table which does

logout
        1:
          :aa=getenv("doofus")

        2:
          :show"@aa="<aa

        3:
          :exit

I don't seem to get the variable in the second process.  If this is correct I can do other things like pass a paramter to the login to do a lookup to a table and always check that, or even pass the username before starting filepro.


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