Filepro-list Digest, Vol 28, Issue 25

[Boaz Bezborodko]

filepro-list-request at lists.celestial.com wrote:

>Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:07:00 -0500
>From: "Rick Mitchell" <rick.mitchell at sirque.net>
>Subject: Fw: filepro / enviroment variables / putenv
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>I read in March of 2005 the exchange between Ken , JP, and Brian concerning putenv commands.
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>I have used getenv to get the username from my novell server with no problems for years.
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>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.
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>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.
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>login 
>
>        1:
>          :input aa "Enter your name"
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>        2:
>          :putenv "DOOFUS",aa
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>        3:
>          :exit
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>Once this is run doofus does not appear to the next table which does
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>logout
>        1:
>          :aa=getenv("doofus")
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>        2:
>          :show"@aa="<aa
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>        3:
>          :exit
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>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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>Message: 8
>Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:41:41 -0400
>From: Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
>Subject: Re: Fw: filepro / enviroment variables / putenv
>To: Rick Mitchell <rick.mitchell at sirque.net>
>Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
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>Quoting Rick Mitchell (Wed, 10 May 2006 09:07:00 -0500):
>[...]
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>>>           :input aa "Enter your name"
>>>           :putenv "DOOFUS",aa
>>>           :exit
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> [...] Each process has its own environment. This environment can be
> inherited by that process' children, but it cannot change the parent
> process' environment. In other words, whatever program started the
> filePro program with the above processing will not have its
> environment changed, so any other program started by it will not have
> the new variable, either. -- KenBrody at BestWeb dot net spamtrap:
> <g8ymh8uf001 at sneakemail.com> http://www.hvcomputer.com
> http://www.fileProPlus.com


Rick,

I've done this with Netware, but you have to set the environement
variable using Netware's SET command during the Netware login.  I did it
by modifying the server login script which is run before individual
script gets run.  Any DOS window opened up will then have this
environment in it.

Boaz
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