Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 18:00:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> Cc: ben@rosengart.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: - pop3 - URGENT Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980622175802.270A-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980623013912.4033A-100000@avrasya.ispro.net.tr>
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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > sorry I did not see the freebsd-isp list on lists list... > I guess I missed it... > also I asked it at questions list and nobody could answer... > I do not want to have a huge /var/mail directory full of > symlinks... I wanted to change the source code of pop3 > there it was writing /var/mail I changed it with $HOME/mail > but the c compiler thinks $HOME something else... > how may I make the compiler to ignore $ sign at front of HOME? You're trying to use a shell variable in a C program. Read the man page for getpwent(3) to see how to get a user's home directory from the passwd file. Or, if you're hell-bent on using the environment variable, look at getenv(3). I suspect that the former approach is the recommended one, though. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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