Re: Environment Variables

Randy,

>Some of my users have setup a
>server running my program from "Remote Desktops".  They log in to my
program
>from a single icon on the server's desktop.  The "default value" for
TEMP,
>TMP, and the CLIPPER swappath and temppath variables is "C:\TEMP" on the
>server. We want to be able to change those environment variables on the
fly 
>"after" the user logs into the program ...

>Logging onto the server via remote desktop allows the system
administrator 
>to assign special security to each user and he wants more control over
the 
>folders that each person has or does not have access to.  He does not
want every 
>user to have access to the C:\TEMP directory.  I'm trying to accomodate
my 
>customer ...

But don't you get that "for free" when logging in at the server's
desktop? Doesn't everyone log in on the server with his/her own
credentials and get his/her own desktop just like when sharing a local
computer? Then all settings would be in the user profile. Or do they
all log in at the server as the same user? Then it would be difficult
to lock them out of certain directories no matter what you do after
login. This sounds like something that should be solved on the OS
level when connecting to the server rather than on the application
level.

BTW, even if you get a copy of Funcky and set those environment
variables easily with putenv() I am not quite convinced that Clipper
will take notice. I originally thought that you wanted to set some
variables (not knowihg which ones) so the exe itself could retrieve
them later on. But I suspect that the Clipper runtime checks the TEMP
and CLIPPER variables once and for all and never bothers to check them
again. After all, having the environment changed while the application
is running isn't likely to be something that the guys at Nantucket and
CA would expect. I could be wrong, of course <g>.

Regards,
Klas

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