"(Ted Harding)" wrote:
> The point goes back to the very early days of UNIX, when the user
> was quite likely to be logging in from a very primitive teletype
> that could only do capitals (5- or 6-bit serial line).
>
> UNIX was set up to recognise login with capital letters and use
> capitals for
Ken Irving wrote:
>
> >
> > I just logged in with my user name accidentelly in CAPS and the system
> > let me log in. More suprisingly, everything that is printed on the
> > terminal is in CAPS, too, including everything I type in lower case.
> > Escape sequences for colorizing the terminal don't
On 23-Aug-00 Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
> I just logged in with my user name accidentelly in CAPS and the system
> let me log in. More suprisingly, everything that is printed on the
> terminal is in CAPS, too, including everything I type in lower case.
>
> Is this a bug or a feature? Or is it a fe
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:36:31 EDT, "Lewis, James M." writes:
>I didn't know linux did this. It's an old unix feature.
>Way back when, there were terminals that only had uppercase.
Umm, way back in an Austrian school, about 1995...terminals for a
BS2000 (a sinix(unix-)clone from Siemens iirc) mai
Viktor Rosenfeld writes:
> Is this a bug or a feature? Or is it a feature that used to be a bug?
Morten Liebach writes:
> ...it turned out (according to someone on an OpenBSD mailinglist) that
> it's an ageold UNIX bug
It is a feature, and always has been. It exists to support monocase
terminal
On 23, aug, 2000 at 07:33:41 +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I just logged in with my user name accidentelly in CAPS and the system
> let me log in. More suprisingly, everything that is printed on the
> terminal is in CAPS, too, including everything I type in lower case.
> Escape s
> Hi list,
>
> I just logged in with my user name accidentelly in CAPS and the system
> let me log in. More suprisingly, everything that is printed on the
> terminal is in CAPS, too, including everything I type in lower case.
> Escape sequences for colorizing the terminal don't work either. Th
Hi list,
I just logged in with my user name accidentelly in CAPS and the system
let me log in. More suprisingly, everything that is printed on the
terminal is in CAPS, too, including everything I type in lower case.
Escape sequences for colorizing the terminal don't work either. This
will work
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