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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:37:09 +0100
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Once upon a time (on 10 Mar 97 at 1:51) mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on. said:

> > If you put spaces in it, getenv("BLASTER=") returned NULL.
> > 
> > This never happened with DRDOS.
> 
> All "SET" lines must be in the format:
> 
> SET VAR=xxxx with no spaces on either side of the equals sign.
> This is a long standing "feature" of DOS.  If it worked under
> DRDOS, then DRDOS has different "features".  Also, don't put the
> '=' in the call to getenv.
> 
> Again, I don't know of the differences in features between the
> DOS's, but if you do it the M$ way, it works under all DOS's.
> Since we're improving an M$ OS, we have to be backwards
> compatible, that means copying the long standing impossible to
> get rid of "features".
> 
> Read "features" as meaning "bugs" throughout this letter.
You mean the famous M$'s "undocumented features"? ;-)

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