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re: "stupid newbie questions" - not
> From: "Stephen L Arnold" <sarnold@coyote.rain.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:17:45 -0700
> I kinda took that to mean win95 doesn't have the user/group info,
> etc, to make an /etc dir worthless for win95. What is /etc good
> for under win95?
There are programs calling function getuid()
These work only if there is an /etc/passwd
mkpasswd.exe didn't work so I made it with notepad.
Now there is an answer to whoami
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