System field options

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list wrote:

>I was checking the system maintained fields as listed in the *clerk help
>file.

>I found that at least in version 5.8.03.25 for windows that @id does have
>the getenv("username") the same value although the help file states what it
>would be blankon a Windows system and only hold 8 characters on a *nix
>system.

For many years *nix system restricted the username to 8
characters.  It's a Good Idea(TM) to restrict usernames to lower
case although mixed case is generally accepted.

Bill
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