From: MORRIS JP <jpmorris AT csm DOT uwe DOT ac DOT uk>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 08:58:44 GMT
Message-Id: <199703060858.IAA24249@milly>
To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] OD case sensitivity
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> From owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Wed Mar  5 21:34:41 1997
> Comments: Authenticated sender is <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
> From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 21:51:17 +0100
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> Subject: [opendos] OD case sensitivity
> Cc: "Alaric B. Williams" <alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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[edited]
 
> Probably someone has already noticed that but, just for the record, I will 
> say it again:
> 
> OpenDOS is internally case-sensitive in environment operations.
> 
> 
> When I've changed the 'set path=c:\opendos' to 'set PATH=c:\opendos' in 
> dconfig.sys - everything went just OK.
>
> Conclusion: OpenDOS internally pays attention to the env. variable's case and 
> programs that do 'getenv("PATH")' receive NULL. Or... what else could it be?
> 

In addition, the SET command has something wierd about it.

My SET BLASTER line used to read thus:

	SET BLASTER = A220 I7 D1 T4

But numerous programs fell over and said that the soundcard was gone.
A lot of fiddling and recompiling later, I discovered that it would only
work if it read:

	SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4

If you put spaces in it, getenv("BLASTER=") returned NULL.

This never happened with DRDOS.


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