Enviroment always uppercased; Help me, please

[Peter Buckley]

Sounds like a problem with starting env directly from the command shell. 
Like he said, don't start cygwin programs from non-cygwin programs, i.e. 
don't run env from the command shell- use bash instead.

 From a cmd shell-

cmd> set cAsE=sEnSiTiVe
cmd> env | grep -i case
CASE=sEnSiTiVe

 From a bash shell-

bash> export cAsE=sEnSiTiVe
bash> env | grep -i case
cAsE=sEnSiTiVe

HTH,
Peter

Markus K. E. Kommant wrote:

> No, it doesn't
> 
> When calling env.exe (compiled with cygwin1.dll), cygwin programs installed
> in c:/usr/bin
> 
> starting cmd.exe:
> 
> C:\>set garfield=1234
> C:\>c:\usr\bin\env.exe | c:\usr\bin\grep -i gar
> GARFIELD=1234
> 
> env.exe (the cygwin program) has uppercased the environment.
> (the set in the example was the set of cmd.exe, useally there is no set.exe
> in /usr/bin)
> 
> The solution, to start a cygwin program "NOT" from another cygwin program is
> impossible on Windows. B. Gates won't rebuild Windows with useage of
> cygwin1.dll?
> 
> And this is not typical for Windows (as you see by using set from cmd.exe)
> and it is not typical for UNIX and POSIX. 
> 
> To uppercase some Environment values can make sense.
> 
> When exporting them to a DOS (and some Windows programs), but this is not
> done by cygwin.
> 
> And it could make sense to uppercase *some* variables, which come from
> Windows programs, see MKS Toolkit, like PATH, instead of Path, and some
> more, but this is optional. Else the use of cygwin is very restricted. I
> solved this problem in a port of the pdksh very carefully... But all the
> work is trash, if startupcode will change the environment - without
> notification or option to stop it.
> 
> At the moment I am looking for a stable way (see thread Re: cygwin gcc DLLs
> loaded by Visual C++ crashing) to call the pdksh.exe as a pdksh1.dll.
> 
> But the solution posted is not stable at the moment. After a while the
> programs will hang.
> But the environment is okay (startupcode of MSVC seems to be okay...).
> 
> At least. Using the original Environment in cygwin is impossible. (> As cfg
> said: "Don't start the program from a non cygwin program")
> 
> The solution could be a user build cygwin1.dll without the Environment
> hack?!? Anybody?
> 
> Markus
> - Thread closed.
> 
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Hack Kampbjørn [mailto:cygwin@hack.kampbjorn.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:50 PM
>>To: Markus K. E. Kommant
>>Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
>>Subject: Re: Enviroment always uppercased; Help me, please
>>
>>
>>"Markus K. E. Kommant" wrote:
>>
>>>Really???
>>>
>>>
>>>>Don't start the program from a non cygwin program.
>>>>
>>>I am using Windows 2000/NT operating system as the base for 
>>>
>>my cygwin
>>
>>>programs and not DOS and not Linux.
>>>
>>>Do anyone know a good trick to use POSIX Environment (or 
>>>
>>simply real Windows
>>
>>>Environment) without the cygwin-DOS changes.
>>>
>>>Hopefully waiting for help, without real POSIX I have to 
>>>
>>look for another
>>
>>>programming base, instead of cygwin...
>>>
>>>Probably there has anybody build an own cygwin1.dll with 
>>>
>>POSIX Environment
>>
>>>on Windows???
>>>
>>>Markus
>>>
>>I don't know what you're asking for. Cygwin does provide case 
>>sensitive
>>environment variables.
>>
>>In a cmd.exe window:
>>
>>	C:\>set env_var=lowercase
>>	C:\>set
>>	[...]
>>	env_var=lowercase
>>	[...]
>>	C:\>set ENV_VAR=UPPERCASE
>>	C:\>set
>>	[...]
>>	env_var=UPPERCASE
>>	[...]
>>	C:\>cygwin
>>	$ set | grep -i env_var
>>	ENV_VAR=UPPERCASE
>>	$ logout
>>	C:\cygwin\bin>exit
>>
>>And in cygwin's bash:
>>	$ env_var=lowercase
>>	$ ENV_VAR=UPPERCASE
>>	$ set | grep -i env_var
>>	ENV_VAR=UPPERCASE
>>	env_var=lowercase
>>	$ bash
>>	$ set | grep -i env_var
>>	$ exit
>>	$ export env_var ENV_VAR
>>	$ bash
>>	$ set | grep -i env_var
>>	ENV_VAR=UPPERCASE
>>	env_var=lowercase
>>	$ exit
>>	$ cmd.exe
>>	Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
>>	(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.
>>
>>	C:\>set
>>	[...]
>>	ENV_VAR=UPPERCASE
>>	[...]
>>	env_var=lowercase
>>	[...]
>>
>>As cfg said: "Don't start the program from a non cygwin program"
>>
>>-- 
>>Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards
>>
>>Hack Kampbjørn
>>
>>
> 
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