On Friday 22 February 2002 00:17, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> This is a lot older than those OS's... it dates back to the times
> when you were lucky to find a terminal at all, and if it had no
> lower/uppercase capability, you had to make do.

Yep, I was thinking about more commonly used OS's today.
I would definately have to agree with you there.

> See "fossil" in
> http://www.instinct.org/texts/jargon-file/jargon_21.html and
> "Configuration Options and Arguments" in
> http://dune.mcs.kent.edu/cgi-bin/man2html?getty(1M) and IUCLC and
> OLCUC in "man termios".

hehe, it was worth a look just to browse! I think maybe this was
a case of "fat electrons"! Good link on getty too.

Thx
-- 

~Lynn Avants
aka Guitarlynn

guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net
http://leaf.sourceforge.net

If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question!

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