I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has my username in upper-case. So it is "DSMILEY". On unix based hosts I log into, it is always lower-case. So if I try to SSH to another machine where I have the same login name, I can't let SSH automatically default to $USER because the case isn't right. *Even if* Windows user names are case sensitive and so there is a difference between DSMILEY and dsmiley (are they?, I don't know) I think $USER should be made to be all lower-case to be consistent with unix environments.
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