Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 19:12:22 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Dave Pearson <davep DOT news3 AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: emacs getting confused about location of ~/.emacs
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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.