Re: login with capital letters

Darin Cowan (cowan@ermine.com)
Sun, 19 Nov 1995 23:30:20 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 19 Nov 1995, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

> In your message of Sun, 19 Nov 1995 10:18:02 EST, you write:
> +-----
> | That is exactly how login is supposed to function. It goes back to the
> | days of all-upper-case terminals. When it's in uppercase mode, normal
> +--->8
>
> What *I* want to know is: how many KSR-33s and LSI ADM-3's are being used
> with Linux that we need to continue to support this???
>
> (Yes, I remember --- and have used --- both.)

:> Those were the first upgrade from two-cans-on-a-string weren't they?

I believe (although it's been a long time since I read it so I could be
wrong) that the all-uppercase-login support is part of the POSIX standard.

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