Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:40:40 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Laszlo Molnar <laszlo DOT molnar AT eth DOT ericsson DOT se>
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Subject: Re: Make 3.78 is in pretest (fwd)
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Laszlo Molnar wrote:

> Yeah, perl seems to add an strupr before setting an environment
> variable (in an #ifdef MSDOS). There is a very old comment in the code
> which says this is needed because some programs could break without it.
> But I also think it's time to remove it.

Definitely.  I cannot imagine what could break if environment variables 
are treated case-sensitively, since that's what DOS does.  Unless 
somebody generates a batch file from Perl and puts "set foo=bar" commands 
there, that is.

> I'll submit a patch to the perl5-porters.

Thanks.