Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/05/25/06:02:05
I'm currently "remote debugging" a problem that occurs on
2 PCs several thousend kilometers from here. It isn't
reproducable on my own PCs.
I've already found a workaround but I'm still worried.
Calling getenv() function to read the PATH returns NULL
but I've been told that PATH exists and has valid entries.
The PCs are running W98 (most likely a french version, but I
haven't yet found out definetly) and the "PATH" is spelled "Path"
when you look at the environment with "set". Changing it to "PATH"
seems to make it work correctly.
My WinNT4.0 also uses "Path" but returns it's contents correctly when
I call getenv("PATH").
AFAIK DOS et. al. stores environmemt variables in the way they are typed in, but
interpretes them caseINsensitive.
Is there any known incompatibility with french versions of W95(98)?
The libc reference doesn't mention casesensitiveness and ANSI
doesn't deal with it at all (because on other OS environment variables
are case sensitive).
There is still the possibility that the problem is found elsewhere because
I have to rely on the information of some users (not necessarily experts)
but currently it looks the way I've described above.
Comments ?
Tony
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