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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:00:23 -0400
To: Shankar Unni <shankarunni AT netscape DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: environment variable name converted to upper case
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At 05:13 PM 8/23/2004, you wrote:
>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?


I'm not sure what you mean by 'Posix shells'.  Shells that come with the
Cygwin environment don't expect uppercase.  Windows (and DOS) do, really.
Is it possible to change the behavior in Cygwin to selectively uppercase
environment variables inherited from Windows?  Sure.  I doubt it will happen
unless there's a really good reason to do so, since it introduces complexity.
But, if you decide to make the change yourself for your own needs, feel free
to submit the patch to cygwin-patches.  If I'm wrong and/or if you can make 
a good case for it, I'm sure it will be accepted.



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