From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP and Windows 2000
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:05:40 +0300
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Marco van de Voort wrote:
> 
> If you have problems with Win2000 with environment variables, please keep
> in mind that Win2000 doesn't auto-uppercases env var names.

Yes, it does--but only for DOS programs (including DJGPP).  For example, if
you type "set" from the W2K shell prompt, you will see "Path", not "PATH". 
But inside a DJGPP program, the environ[] array will hold "PATH", in all
caps.

This isn't something new with W2K, NT4 does the same.