Resolving Environment Variables

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From: Bruce Henderson
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:36

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What is the best way to resolve variables like %SystemRoot%, %HomeDrive%,
%Temp%, %UserName%, etc?

Is there an API to do this?  Do I have to pull them out of the Registry?
What about different version of Windows?

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