odd PH/VMS logical name behaviour

[Chris Sharman]

I've got a mixed-case logical name:
$ def "Test" "MyTest"

$ quiz
Qz> def mytest char*10 = getsystemval("Test")
Qz> rep mytest

Reports it as blank - presumably it doesn't find it.
Defining it as uppercase works fine.

VMS logical names can be defined mixed-case (but are usually uppercase).
They can be fetched either case-sensitive or case-blind.

Powerhouse would appear to be uppercasing the supplied string, then 
doing a case-sensitive search - not the optimum behaviour !
Be nice if it used the string I gave it, and probably set the case-blind 
flag to avoid breaking most existing stuff.

VMS 7.3, PH 7.10G3

Chris


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