PROMPT is case sensitive

[Rockphorr]

I created program to show it.
If you have free time to test case sensitive of the PROMPT var on your OS type following commands

command.com
set
envirbug.exe
set

after compare value of PROMPT var with prompt on scceen before and after envirbug.exe

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[Rockphorr]

the report of my win2k at the work:

Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-1999.

C:\DOCUME~1\92A2~1>cd \!

C:\!>dir
Том в устройстве C имеет метку Локальный диск
Серийный номер тома: 1069-B7DE

Содержимое папки C:\!

15.06.2006  12:55       <DIR>          .
15.06.2006  12:55       <DIR>          ..
13.06.2006  20:07                  903 ENVIRBUG.EXE
13.06.2006  20:09                2 449 ENVIRBUG.ZIP
15.06.2006  12:55              317 712 MASMsetup.EXE
               3 файлов        321 064 байт
               2 папок  12 827 111 424 байт свободно

C:\!>set  <---- correct prompt for  $P$G value
COMSPEC=C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\COMMAND.COM
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\DOCUME~1\ALLUSE~1
APPDATA=C:\DOCUME~1\92A2~1\APPLIC~1
COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1
COMPUTERNAME=INTER
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\_-в_а
LOGONSERVER=\\INTER
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
OS=Windows_NT
OS2LIBPATH=C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;
PATH=C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 6, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0806
PROGRAMFILES=C:\PROGRA~1
PROMPT=$P$G
SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINNT
TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\92A2~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\92A2~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
USERDOMAIN=INTER
USERNAME=_-в_а
USERPROFILE=C:\DOCUME~1\92A2~1

C:\!>envirbug
Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-1999.

C>set   <---- ERROR prompt for $P$G value
COMSPEC=C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\COMMAND.COM
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\DOCUME~1\ALLUSE~1
APPDATA=C:\DOCUME~1\92A2~1\APPLIC~1
COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1
COMPUTERNAME=INTER
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\_-в_а
LOGONSERVER=\\INTER
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
OS=Windows_NT
OS2LIBPATH=C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;
PATH=C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 6, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0806
PROGRAMFILES=C:\PROGRA~1
prompt=$p$g  <--- now prompt var is low case
SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINNT
TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\92A2~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\92A2~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
USERDOMAIN=INTER
USERNAME=_-в_а
USERPROFILE=C:\DOCUME~1\92A2~1

C>

[hutch--]

Rockphorr,

This is what it looks like on my US English Win2000 sp4 CMD.EXE

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C:\>prompt $p$g

C:\>prompt $p$d

C:\Fri 06/16/2006prompt $p$x

C:\prompt $p$g

C:\>


[MichaelW]

Rockphorr,

I see now that you are accessing the environment block directly. It seems that for COMMAND the environment variable names are case sensitive, and the system-set variable names are all upper case. I experimented with the path variable from a DOS program running under Windows 2000, and found that "PATH" and "PaTH" are seen as two different variables.

[Rockphorr]

Michael,

There is windir var in win95. It is low case by default.

[Rockphorr]

Rockphorr,

This is what it looks like on my US English Win2000 sp4 CMD.EXE

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C:\>prompt $p$g

C:\>prompt $p$d

C:\Fri 06/16/2006prompt $p$x

C:\prompt $p$g

C:\>


You must launch envirbug.exe to see the effect.