Enviroment always uppercased; Help me, please

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 12:46 PM 2/27/2002, Markus K. E. Kommant wrote:
>Seems to be a cygwin "feature" that the environment will be uppercased, when
>called by a none cygwin program.
>
>When puting a variable "gar=1" into the environment and call a program
>compiled with gcc and cygwin, the result, when printing the environment,
>will be
>GAR=1
>
>ups, gar != GAR, especially in a POSIX environment!
>
>When compiling the program with MS Developer Studio C++ the printed result
>will be
>gar=1
>and that's okay.
>
>Is there a trick to switch to a "POSIX" mode in cygwin and leave the case of
>the environment unchanged?



Check the email archives if you want details.  You'll have to go waaay
back. :-)  The change was made for better interoperability of Cygwin and 
DOS/'Doze but I don't recall the details off hand.



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