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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:02:58 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP
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On 4 Feb 1999, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> You mean DJGPP, I hope. Environment variables might be (I don't know as 
> it's NT you are talking about) case sensitive.

Environment variables are *always* case-sensitive, even in plain DOS.  
However:

	- DOS and Windows 3.X/9X won't let you set lower-case variables 
	  from the command line (they automatically upcase the variable 
	  name);

	- NT *does* let you use lower-case letters, but DOS programs 
	  (including DJGPP) get a copy of the environment where all 
	  variables are upcased (otherwise Path and ComSpec would break a 
	  lot of DOS programs).

So I don't think this aspect matters in this case.

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