Different colors per user

Joe Chasan joe at magnatechonline.com
Thu Feb 21 04:38:08 PST 2008


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:25:04AM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:21:21 -0500):
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:50:54PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> [...]
> >> Environment variables are case-sensitive under *nix, but not under Windows.
> >
> > To clarify: getenv("MenuNormal") will return the value of %MENUNORMAL%
> > on Windows, but not of $MENUNORMAL (only of $MenuNormal) on UNIX, then,
> > correct?
> 
> Under Unix, $MenuNormal and $MENUNORMAL are two distinct environment
> variables.  Under Windows, %MenuNormal% and %MENUNORMAL% are one and
> the same.  As such, your above getenv() will return the environment
> variables as you describe above.
> 
> Note that config variables are not case sensitive.
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What does this mean specifically?  That variables set in fp's config file 
are not case sensitive, or any fp-specific variables set anywhere (including
shell) are not case sensitive?  

It appears from this incident that only the former is true and if
so, the help files should show the variables in their correctly (e.g
globally and non os-dependent) accepted case - but of course this
brings up look 'n feel issue question of why are all non-color variables 
in caps and color ones require Mixed Case?

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