Re: Case handling of environment variables

2005-02-26 Thread Shankar Unni
Volker Quetschke wrote: Can anyone point me to a message/webpage that explaines the reason for this conversion? Unfortunately I didn't find any explanation in the archives or the FAQ or the User's Guide. The biggest reason is PATH. Most (all) POSIX programs will look for the environment variable i

Case handling of environment variables

2005-02-26 Thread Volker Quetschke
When you search the archives you find a few messages stating that windows environment variables get converted to upper case. There was even a patch by Ernie Coskrey discussing a new option controlling this behavior on cygwin-patches. Can anyone point me to a message/webpage that explaines the reaso