On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:23:50 -0500, Mark Regan wrote: >https://www.computerworld.com/article/3322124/data-center/so-much-for-that-excuse.html > (I went to Google translate.) It may be pronounced the same, but spelled differently. And even spelled aloud it may sound the same. Did he try "Zulu Echo Romeo Oscar"? There's a reason for that. And no reason that many local emergency services use various others.
I once jumped in on someone trying to communicate a serial number over a speakerphone to Apple Tech support. I resorted to military/aviation phonetic codes. She understood correctly the first try. On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:32:59 -0500, Chuck Kreiter wrote: >First OS/390 install I did kept failing on the Unix System Services steps. >The terminal I had only did uppercase. Once I swapped it out with one that >did both cases, it worked fine. Beat my head on the desk for a couple of >days on that one. > Where can you still find one of those? I understand that some early UNIX systems accommodated them by, if the logon sequence (user ID and password) was entirely in majuscule, translate all subsequent terminal input to minuscule. (Please dont start the timeworn advocacy!) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
