From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f02a96c85b47538d X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.35.68 with SMTP id f4mr3394457pbj.5.1320872085181; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:54:45 -0800 (PST) Path: h5ni17860pba.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Rego, P." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Read Windows login username in Ada 95 Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:47:57 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <268750.2183.1320871677246.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yqan20> References: <9192369.445.1320801564794.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yqbl36> Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.7.145.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1320872085 11476 127.0.0.1 (9 Nov 2011 20:54:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 20:54:45 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <9192369.445.1320801564794.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yqbl36> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=201.7.145.1; posting-account=TRgI1QoAAABSsYi-ox3Pi6N-JEKKU0cu User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true Xref: news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:14373 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2011-11-09T12:47:57-08:00 List-Id: Well, answering myself, we could use function GetUsername return String is function GetEnv (Variable : String) return Interfaces.C.Strings.chars_ptr; pragma Import (C, GetEnv, "getenv"); Command : constant String := "USERNAME"; Answer_Ptr : constant Interfaces.C.Strings.chars_ptr := GetEnv (Command); Answer : constant String := Interfaces.C.Strings.Value (Answer_Ptr); begin return Answer; end GetUsername; Not pure Ada, but fits very well. Thank to all suggestions.