From:	Dave Pearson <davep DOT news3 AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: emacs getting confused about location of ~/.emacs
Date:	Wed, 3 Jun 1998 05:22:21 GMT
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On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 19:12:22 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Dave Pearson wrote:
> 
> >     (user-login-name)      --> "DAVEP"
> >     (user-real-login-name) --> "davep"
> 
> User names are case-sensitive, of course...

Yup.

> > Yup, this is the difference, and, the only difference is the
> > case. However, and this is the interesting bit, LOGNAME, in
> > AUTOEXEC.BAT, is set to "davep", not "DAVEP". For some reason that I
> > can't yet fathom it is getting turned into an upper case value. Hmm, in
> > fact, now that I've checked again it would appear that, for some reason,
> > *everything* in my environment is being converted to uppercase.
> 
> What shell do you use?  The standard COMMAND.COM upcases the names of the
> environment variables, but it leaves the values in their original
> letter-case.

Well, I found the cause. Because this new machine is a general "low budget,
knocking about" machine I picked up a cheap sound card for it (Aztech
SoundGalaxy Pro 16 III-3D PnP). This was the cause of the problem. It had
placed an entry in the system registry that ran a utility called PNPCHK
which appears to re-write AUTOEXEC.BAT (I say appears, I can't be certain
what it is actually doing, I might take it apart and have a look later) on
boot up. It doesn't change all the value to uppercase in AUTOEXEC.BAT on
disk but it was causing them to be made upper case in the environment. After
locating this and disabling it everything was back to normal.

PnP, don't you just love it? ;-)

BTW, I always use 4Dos as my shell.

Thanks for all your help Eli.

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