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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 08:01:02 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Release 2 of DJGPP port of Perl 5.6.1
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Richard Dawe wrote:

> Release 2 of the DJGPP port of Perl 5.6.1 is now available.
> 
> This release fixes inconsistencies in the handling of environment variables
> via the %ENV associative array. Previously the environment variable names were
> treated case-insensitively most of the time, but case-sensitively when
> accessed via %ENV. Now the environment variable names are treated
> case-sensitively in all cases. (DOS supports case-specific environment
> variable names, although COMMAND.COM always capitalises them, when you use
> 'set'.)

What about the problem with return status of programs invoked by 
Perl--was that fixed as well?  That problem annoys me quite a bit each 
time I need to run the GNU Make's test suite: it causes one of the tests 
to consistently fail.

(Ask me if you want the details.)

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