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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Release 2 of DJGPP port of Perl 5.6.1
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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 01:51:31 GMT
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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'.)

Shouldn't this be another item marked with a r-n, as for fileutils
recently?  Who's to tell without it?

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