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Re: win32 'Path'


From: Earnie Boyd
Subject: Re: win32 'Path'
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:57:50 -0500 (EST)
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<quote who="Alessandro Vesely">
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>
>> And can someone explain to me why MSDN, the documented Windows
>> authority,
>> speaks of PATH and not Path?  Every sample I could find mentioned PATH.
>> I
>> have yet to find a sample that mentions Path!
>
> It is not fully inconsistent: since variable name lookups are case
> insensitive, one is free to write a name using any capitalization, in
> order to improve readability. Capitalizing the first letter is often
> done with filenames as well.
>

My point with this is, Microsoft suggests in every example setting PATH. 
Why then is there are problem for make?

Interestingly:
cmd.exe
c:\>set path
Path=c:/msys/unified/bin
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH

C:\>path
PATH=c:/msys/unified/bin

Earnie

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