Re: login with capital letters

Jeff Coy Jr. (jcoy@jcoy-ppp.cscwc.pima.edu)
Wed, 22 Nov 1995 02:03:09 -0700 (MST)


On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

> In your message of Sun, 19 Nov 1995 23:30:20 EST, you write:
> +-----
> | On Sun, 19 Nov 1995, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> | > 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???
> |
> | 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.
> +--->8
>

i've been holding back, but i feel i should mention that I use an all
uppercase terminal. it was free. it hooks up to the serial port and i
can reboot linux when i lock the console. there are people who use 'em.
(i've been in this conversation before, and i've been told i'm not alone).

jeff
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