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kenray on 11/15/08


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stsIsShellCheckingForUNC

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Determines whether the OS has been set up to ignore UNC paths when in the shell. Normally, the OS will return a header in the result of any command while the current working directory is on a UNC path unless a flag is set in the Registry.

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  1. function stsIsShellCheckingForUNC
  2.    -- returns whether the registry has its DisableUNCCheck turned on or not
  3.    if the platform is not "Win32" then
  4.      return "STSError: stsIsShellCheckingForUNC can only be used on Windows."
  5.    else
  6.      put queryRegistry("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\DisableUNCCheck") into tResult
  7.      if the result is "can't find key" then
  8.        return false
  9.      else
  10.        if tResult <> "" then
  11.          get binaryDecode("H*",tResult,tVal)
  12.          if tVal = "01000000" then return true
  13.          else return false
  14.        else
  15.          return "STSError: Querying for DisableUNCCheck returned:" && tResult & cr & (the result)
  16.        end if
  17.      end if
  18.    end if
  19. end stsIsShellCheckingForUNC

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