Supervising the Network

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Customizing the User Environment

Identiﬁer Variables

specify a path, such as COMSPEC.

• Type the variable exactly as shown.

• To use DOS environment variables as identifiers, enclose them in angle brackets.

• Identifier variables can be placed within literal text strings in a WRITE statement.

However, the identifier variable must be in uppercase letters and preceded by a

percent sign. (Literal text is the text that is displayed on the screen, such as “Sales

report is due today.” Literal text must be enclosed in quotation marks.)

Examples

• If user Smith logs in during the morning, both of the following lines display the

same message on his screen (“Good morning, SMITH”):

WRITE “Good ”; GREETING_TIME; “, ”; LAST_NAME

WRITE “Good %GREETING_TIME, %LAST_NAME”

• To use DOS environment variables as identifiers, enclose them in angle brackets.

The following example uses the DOS environment variable “path”:

WRITE “my path is ”%<path>

The text displayed on the screen is similar to this:

my path is z:.;y:.;c:\WINDOWS

Using LOGIN Parameters with %n Variables

Some variables in a login script can be indicated by a percent sign (%)

followed by a number from 0 to 9.

When a user logs in, he or she can type additional parameters that the

these parameters for any %n variables in the login script. These variables are

replaced in order by the parameters the user typed when executing the

The %0 variable is replaced by the name of the NetWare server the user

typed at the command line, and %1 is replaced by the user’s login name. The

remaining variables change, depending on what the user types when

executing LOGIN. The %n variables must precede all command line

options.