Subject: Re: "bad" PATH (2 instances seen by bash launched cmd file)
From: [email-masked] (Earnie Boyd)

20 Mar 1998 05:48:18 -0800
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>To: [email-masked]
>From: "Tom Rodman" <[email-masked]>
>Reply-To: "Tom Rodman" <[email-masked]>
>Subject: "bad" PATH (2 instances seen by bash launched cmd file)
>Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:26:59 -0600
>
>Take a look at this bash (beta 18) session:
>
>
>  >                  /adm/sa/tmp
>  > CMKE773 adm > export PATH=/WINNT/system32
>  >                  /adm/sa/tmp
>  > CMKE773 adm > echo path=bar \& set path|cmd
>  Microsoft(R) Windows NT(TM)
>  (C) Copyright 1985-1996 Microsoft Corp.
>   
>  s:\adm\sa\tmp>path=bar & set path
>  PATH=bar
>  PATH=c:\WINNT\system32
>  PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD
>
>Notice that PATH shows up twice. Can anyone explain this?

Just guessing, it appears to me that it is a bug in the display of the 
output.  PATH=bar should be displayed as path=bar and 
PATH=c:\WINNT\system32 should be displayed as it is.  Therefore, the 
lowercase variables are stored as lowercase but displayed as UPPERCASE.

>
>regards,
>
>Tom Rodman
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