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From: Shankar Unni <shankarunni AT netscape DOT net>
Subject: Re: environment variable name converted to upper case
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:13:56 -0700
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> To repeat, translating environment variables to uppercase is something
> that *cygwin* does.  Check out environ.cc for more information.

Could the uppercasing be limited to certain environment variables? 
Particularly, only PATH, since that's common to both NT and Posix 
shells, but that NT allows in any case while Posix shells expect in 
uppercase?


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