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Re: base-files: LOGNAME

On May 30 13:11, Yaakov S wrote:
> On 2010-05-30 04:31, John Morrison wrote:
> >Could we do;
> >
> >LOGNAME=$USERNAME
> >export LOGNAME
> >
> >instead?
> 
> I'm not sure those are always equivalent, but I'm no expert on POSIX.

USERNAME is the Windows username.  LOGNAME should be rather equivalent
to $USER.


Corinna

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