Win9x question...

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I don't know what kind of API support you have in QBasic. You should not do 
a registry search (just for portability if for other reasons). 
Another thing you could do is to call the ipconfig command (with the /all 
parameter) and parse the output (assuming that you have the IP protocol 
stack installed). 
On 26 Jun 2002 at 10:48, Ben Jackson wrote:

> Well, in the wonderful world of Win32, most config data isn't kept in
> files, its kept in the horrid mess that is the Registry. They key in Win95
> is:
> 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\control\ComputerName\ComputerName:
> "ComputerName"
> 
> Along with the network portion of the same data:
> 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP:
> "ComputerName"
> 
> I can't verify this now as we no longer have 9x machines at work, but I
> shuffled through one of my stacks of paper and found this.
> 
> HTH
> 					~Ben
> 
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> 
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, kgleason at ma.ultranet.com wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know of a file location in Windows 9x where the Computer Name is consistently stored? I am trying to access this information directly from a QBasic program. I tried doing a search for text and came up with the USER.DAT and SYSTEM.DAT files in the \WIndows directory. 
> > It would be nice if there was one location where computer name was listed in a fixed location or where I knew the number of bytes following a variable. Can anyone help?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > Kevin
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