On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:59:18PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 03:08:27AM -0300, Taupter wrote: ... > > Voila! The text now is all-CAPS. ls has glitches, and ls --color doesn't > > display any color. Emacs and other console programs doesn't display its > > interfaces in the right way. It affects the current console only. > > This is a feature, not a bug. > > Early Unix assumed that if you entered your login in all capitals, the > terminal was incapable of lowercase. The session was then executed in > upper case. > > User input is case-shifted to lc, system output is case-shifted to UC. > > Disable capslock before entering your userid.
I stumbled onto this yesterday for the first time. While the login went OK (what happens with a mixed--UC and lc--password?), I was flustered enough to immediately type "reset" which eliminated the behavior. Maybe when I get in a playful mood I'll explore the consequences a bit more... :-) Kenward -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --
