username should be lower-case for $USER

[Shankar Unni]

TDavid Smiley wrote:
> I am new to Cygwin.  I noticed that the $USER environment variable has my
> username in upper-case.  So it is "DSMILEY".  

As David said, that's because you created your username in ALL UPPERCASE 
when setting up the user on Windows.

The only way to "fix" this for you would be to rename your Windows user 
to have a lower-case name. (If windows allows that operation..)


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