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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:18:03 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-reply AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: environment variable name converted to upper case
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 02:13:56PM -0700, Shankar Unni 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 don't see any reason to do so.  This is trivial to work around and
cygwin's current behavior has not changed for many years.

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