Message-Id: <200301011717.h01HHZB19269@delorie.com> Sender: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 16:56:32 +0000 From: Richard Dawe X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: DJGPP announcements Subject: ANNOUNCE: Release 2 of DJGPP port of Perl 5.6.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello. Release 2 of the DJGPP port of Perl 5.6.1 is now available. This release fixes inconsistencies in the handling of environment variables via the %ENV associative array. Previously the environment variable names were treated case-insensitively most of the time, but case-sensitively when accessed via %ENV. Now the environment variable names are treated case-sensitively in all cases. (DOS supports case-specific environment variable names, although COMMAND.COM always capitalises them, when you use 'set'.) If you wish only to use Perl, please download the binary distribution - perl561b.zip. If you wish to examine the sources or rebuild from sources, please downlaod the source distribution - perl561s.zip. http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/perl561b.zip&name=perl561b.zip http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/perl561s.zip&name=perl561s.zip The diffs and readme for release 2 can be found in gnu/perl.561/djgpp - rel2.diff and rel2.txt respectively. If you have any questions about or problems with the port of Perl, please post them to the newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp. This is also accessible via the mail-to-news gateway on djgpp AT delorie DOT com. Regards, -- Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]