Re: Login with user name in CAPS

2000-08-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
"(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

Re: Login with user name in CAPS (offlist)

2000-08-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
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

RE: Login with user name in CAPS

2000-08-24 Thread Ted Harding
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

Re: Login with user name in CAPS

2000-08-24 Thread Robert Waldner
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

Re: Login with user name in CAPS

2000-08-24 Thread John Hasler
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

Re: Login with user name in CAPS

2000-08-24 Thread Morten Liebach
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

RE: Login with user name in CAPS

2000-08-24 Thread Lewis, James M.
> 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