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Re: environment variable name converted to upper case
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 01:06:50PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
> >To expand on what Chris wrote, this is caused by the fact that in
> >command.com (but not cmd.exe as supplied by XP - I don't know about
> >earlier versions of cmd.exe) all user-setable Windows environmental
> >variable are uppercase.
>
> No. Cygwin goes out of its way to change environment variables to upper
> case. Environment variables in windows, on NT+ at least, can be mixed
> case. Unfortunately, sometimes you find things like "Path" instead of
> "PATH" so Cygwin needs to rectify that.
>
> To repeat, translating environment variables to uppercase is something
> that *cygwin* does. Check out environ.cc for more information.
>
> cgf
Umm, yes, I just found that call to ucenv(). I can't believe I missed it
earlier -- and I did look through environ.cc before answering. Apologies
for confusing the issue.
Igor
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