GetEnv("windir') change behavior 1

[mkendi]

Until yesterday GetEnv("Windir&quot returns "C:\WinNt"
But now "%SystemRoot%"
What is the reason for this behavior?

Thanks in advance
Mehmet

 

[DSummZZZ]

Sounds like maybe you or someone else has been twiddling with your login script or NT environment. "%SystemRoot%" is another environment setting which should in this case be C:\WINNT.
Check you login script to see if the environment string WINNT=%SystemRoot% is in there, or talk to the net admin and see if they have changed anything trying to take a shortcut.

Dave S.

 

[rgbean]

Here are a couple alternatives:
* 1) Environment Var
?GetEnv("Windir&quot

* 2) Win API
Declare Integer GetWindowsDirectory In Win32API ;
String @, Integer
lcData = Space(100)
lnData = 100
lnR = GetWindowsDirectory(@lcData, lnData)
lcWinPath = Substr(lcData,1,lnR)
? lcWinPath

* 3) WSH
#DEFINE WindowsFolder 0
oFS=CREATEOBJECT('Scripting.FileSystemObject')
? oFS.GetSpecialFolder(WindowsFolder).Path
oFS = .null.

Rick

 

[mkendi]

Where is my "login script" ? (I am using W2K)
The NT environment I found under "Enviroment Variables"
Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Systemtools -> SystemInformation and indeed there are Windir set to %SystenRoot% - but this values are all "ReadOnly"


Thanks in advance

PS: rgbean, thanks four this backdoor-solutions.

 

[DSummZZZ]

If you are being validated on a Novell server, you would have a login script unless you opted to not run it. That might be an issue.

You need admin rights to access those settings, but look here:

Start->Setting->Control Panel->System
Select the 'Advanced' tab and browse the settings.
It may or may not say %SystemRoot% but %SystemRoot% should be interpreted as 'C:\winnt' by the system anyway.
I guess I don't know why GETENV() would all of a sudden return a different value. However, I do know that using GETENV("WinDir&quot in Fox 2.x on an NT machine would return a different value ("&quot when called in a compiled .exe that it would in the developement environment ("C:\WINNT&quot.

Dave S.

 

[mkendi]

DSummZZZ, thanks a lot.