On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, in a faraway land (in the days
> of the teletype) not all terminals were capable of lower-case
> characters. The age of the punched cards, punched tape and when CRTs
> were merely "some new-fangled technology"
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:45:31PM +0100, jserrachinha wrote:
> if i login with ROOT (UPPERCASE in ttyx)
> and password, the chars are all in uppercase.
> Is this a feature!?
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, in a faraway land (in the days
of the teletype) not all terminals were capable of
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:45:31PM +0100, jserrachinha wrote:
> if i login with ROOT (UPPERCASE in ttyx)
> and password, the chars are all in uppercase.
> Is this a feature!?
Yup, it's assumed you're logging in on a terminal that can't display
lowerca
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:35:28 +0200,
"Pim Bliek | PingWings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> if i login with ROOT (UPPERCASE in ttyx)
> >> and password, the chars are all in uppercase.
> >> Is this a feature!?
> >
> >I think I read somewhere that this is something le
David Maze writes:
> I don't remember what exactly it's intended to correct against
It's for compatibility with single-case terminals.
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:45:31PM +0100, jserrachinha wrote:
> if i login with ROOT (UPPERCASE in ttyx)
> and password, the chars are all in uppercase.
> Is this a feature!?
Yes, it is. It's a historical relic of very old terminals which only had
upper-case alphabetical characters. See, for insta
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:58:15PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:45:31PM +0100, jserrachinha wrote:
> > if i login with ROOT (UPPERCASE in ttyx)
> > and password, the chars are all in uppercase.
> > Is this a feature!?
>
> I think I read somewhere that this is something l
>> if i login with ROOT (UPPERCASE in ttyx)
>> and password, the chars are all in uppercase.
>> Is this a feature!?
>
>I think I read somewhere that this is something left over from UNIX.
Sh! SCO might think this is *proof*!
LOL :P
Pim
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:45:31PM +0100, jserrachinha wrote:
> if i login with ROOT (UPPERCASE in ttyx)
> and password, the chars are all in uppercase.
> Is this a feature!?
I think I read somewhere that this is something left over from UNIX.
Rudy
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jserrachinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> if i login with ROOT (UPPERCASE in ttyx)
> and password, the chars are all in uppercase.
> Is this a feature!?
Yes. I don't remember what exactly it's intended to correct against,
but I can try to log in as DMAZE (with the normal
mixed-case-and-symbols
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