>>In Whistler SYS(0) has the machine name, followed by the UserID in position 19.
>>
>>>No! This return the Machine name. In our case the machine name will be deferent then the user ID.
>>>

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>>>>JR,
>>>>
>>>>Can you get what you want from SUBSTR(SYS(0), 19) ?
>>>>
>>>>>I have a client with Old FPW 2.x appl. The client are user a GPLib.fll to get the User ID. For some reasions the function that get the User ID do not Work on Window 2000.
>>>>>
>>>>>I know we had a way, back in the old days, to get User ID in FPW2.6 with a call to FoxToll or Win API.
>>>>>
>>>>>Any one remember's HOW?
>
>I can't remember who posted this on UT, but I think it was George Tasker!
>I also make sure that when WinXX is installed the userid is put into the 'computer name', in the network control panel.
>
>

>FUNCTION GetUserID
>LOCAL lcNull, lcUserID, lnLen
>lcNull = ''
>lcUserID = SPACE(255)
>lnLen = 255
>IF _WINDOWS AND ( "NT" $ OS() OR "WINDOWS 4" $ UPPER(OS()) )
>	* Use the WNetGetUser function in the Win32API to get the user ID
>	DECLARE INTEGER WNetGetUser IN WIN32API String @, String @, Integer @
>	IF WNetGetUser(@lcNull,@lcUserID,@lnLen) = 0
>		lcUserID = UPPER(LEFT(lcUserID,AT(CHR(0),lcUserID)-1))
>	ELSE
>		lcUserID = ""
>	ENDIF
>ENDIF
>RETURN ALLTRIM(lcUserID)
>

Jerry,

This is a FPW 2.x question, that's why my response is the way it is.