How do I get the machine name from a LotusScript agent?

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I need to be able to get the Windows machine name from within a LotusScript agent. How can I do this?

The agent is a scheduled agent that runs on the server, but it can also be run on the server by a background client agent, or run on the client.

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Subject: How do I get the machine name from a LotusScript agent?

Have a look at the ENVIRON function in the Help database.

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Subject: RE: How do I get the machine name from a LotusScript agent?

That didn’t help any. Can you be more specific?

Pretend you’re talking to a unix guru who has been programming in LotusScript for a few years. :wink:

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Subject: RE: How do I get the machine name from a LotusScript agent?

If you can’t find the script API mentioned in an earlier post, I normally just use lotuscript to create a .cmd/batch file (Open file for output) on the user’s c drive, (shell out to it to run it) the batch file will just echo %computerName% to another text file which you can then read from lotuscript using Open file for input.

Kind of a kludge but it works.

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Subject: How do I get the machine name from a LotusScript agent?

I hate to post this cluttering the search for someone else with a “do a search”. However search for machine name and look through there. I did the same about 1 year ago and found a very easy API call written in LS to do this very function.

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Subject: How do I get the machine name from a LotusScript agent?

Mike, (modified) from the Help File:

Dim TempNm$ As String,

TempNm$ = Environ(“ComputerName”)

Print TempNm$

Dennis