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System Environment Variables in VB

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Is it possible to use user/system environment variables in VB? I'm integrating a batch file into a VB program. The batch is writing to: %temp%\tmp.tmp so I'm wondering if there's a way I can open that file in VB using the system variable since %temp% is different for every user/computer. Thanks.

Name: Chi Happens
Date: June 3, 2005 at 14:08:47 Pacific

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you can use the Win32 API functions to get the special folders path or the user's path as well. http://msdn.microsoft.com search for Win32 API Chi

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A bit of an old fashioned way but simple and effective: Environ$("[variable]") will return the value of what ever variable you stick between the quotes. Cheers.

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output RTF from DB w ASP?

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