Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 07:43:45 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> X-Sender: eliz AT is To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: getenv problem In-Reply-To: <Xns92EBED4E4C2C4asu1cornelledu@132.236.56.8> Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1021222074209.28392A-100000@is> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 22 Dec 2002, A. Sinan Unur wrote: > i am inclined to think of this as a bug in windows because other system > environment variables overridden by user variables seem to come through > OK. I think it's a kind of (mis-)feature: The NT family of Windows replaces some of the environment variables that are deemed ``inappropriate'' for DOS programs. For example, "Path" is replaced with "PATH", etc.