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From:	"Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Organization:	KGB
To:	OpenDOS Mailing List <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 1997 21:51:17 +0100
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Subject:	[opendos] OD case sensitivity
Reply-To:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
Cc:	"Alaric B. Williams" <alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Sender:	owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net

Probably someone has already noticed that but, just for the record, I will 
say it again:

OpenDOS is internally case-sensitive in environment operations.

Some programs (like Borland's RTM.EXE, VU.EXE from UltaCompressor II package, 
DCC 4.X and others) have problems finding programs/files when the 'path' 
variable is in lower case. Example:

** line in dconfig.sys
set path=c:\opendos


** line in autoexec.bat
PATH=c:\utils;c:\utils\uc


** in c:\utils there are, among others, files:
dpmi16bi.ovl (Borland's DPMI overlay)
rtm.exe (Borland's DPMI RunTime Manager)

** in c:\dcc40 there's a Borland 16-bit DPMI executable TVIEWER.EXE

** command typed
c:\> tviewer.exe products.wri

** error message (short)
stub: cannot find dpmi16bi.ovl


When I've changed the 'set path=c:\opendos' to 'set PATH=c:\opendos' in 
dconfig.sys - everything went just OK.
Conclusion: OpenDOS internally pays attention to the env. variable's case and 
programs that do 'getenv("PATH")' receive NULL. Or... what else could it be?

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