[plug] Weirdness on getty

Mike Holland myk at golden.wattle.id.au
Sun Oct 15 22:41:23 WST 2000


On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> At the login prompt at a getty on a vt, typing a username or any string of
> letters entirely in uppercase will result in everything thereon being in

This is one of those things that reminds you just how old Unix is.
The feature is for the benefit of those with terminals that dont support
lower case.

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Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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