Call me crazy, but I just made some objects so that you can get the
info from /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and convert between UIDs/GIDs
and usernames/groupnames. Its part of my effort to provide as many
low level primitives within Pd as possible. Or really, its make a
libc interface for Pd.
http://at.or.at/hans/pd/objects.html
Of course, these will be included in the next Pd-extended release. I
haven't touched Windows yet, but I plan on it.
.hc
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