On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:39:13 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:13:58 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>What objective would be served by converting to lower case? > >Easier parsing. If everything input is all in one case, it is a bit easier >to parse the commands and options entered. > This shortly becomes totalitarion; Procrustean. For example, there's no way to pass mixed case data under control of "allocate dsn(*) ...". There ought at least to be an ASIS/CAPS option on that construct, not the apparent attitude of "We don't need no steenkin lower case."
>>Typewriter keyboards by default generate lower case. Support >>for Teletype KSR 33, perhaps? > >There were many older teletypes before the KSR 33. Fifty years worth of >them, if memory serves. All upper case only. > I called it a fantasia. UNIX has done well without pervasive case munging. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
