From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-07-31T15:37:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Environment variables with empty value missing from ENV?

Clifford Heath wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> On Gentoo Linux:
>
> Yes, that's the way it should work. Same on Debian with 1.8.4
> It's a bug on ruby/windows (I haven't tried 1.8.4), because:
Hmmm ... perhaps Ruby/Windows is stripping off or not stripping off an 
end-of-line character inappropriately? This might be another piece of 
Curt Hibbs' "mingw vs. Visual Studio for compiling Ruby" puzzle ...

Does it work with the built-in Ruby from CygWin? The reason I ask is 
that when you install CygWin, it gives you the option of defaulting to 
"Unix" or "Windows" end-of-line formats for some kinds of files. It 
recommends Unix, which is what I've always picked. I do know there are 
differences in the way CygWin Perl and ActiveState Perl handle 
end-of-line characters.