Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/06/02/15:07:21
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Dave Pearson wrote:
> (user-login-name) --> "DAVEP"
> (user-real-login-name) --> "davep"
User names are case-sensitive, of course...
> Yup, this is the difference, and, the only difference is the case. However,
> and this is the interesting bit, LOGNAME, in AUTOEXEC.BAT, is set to
> "davep", not "DAVEP". For some reason that I can't yet fathom it is getting
> turned into an upper case value. Hmm, in fact, now that I've checked again
> it would appear that, for some reason, *everything* in my environment is
> being converted to uppercase.
What shell do you use? The standard COMMAND.COM upcases the names of
the environment variables, but it leaves the values in their original
letter-case.
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