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Re: Login with user name in CAPS



On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:36:31 EDT, "Lewis, James M." writes:
>I didn't know linux did this.  It's an old unix feature.
>Way back when, there were terminals that only had uppercase.

<mode sudden_flashback>
Umm, way back in an Austrian school, about 1995...terminals for a 
BS2000 (a sinix(unix-)clone from Siemens iirc) mainframe...20 pupils 
for their first experience with unix...teacher tells "<blah> this, then 
<blah> that, then <blah>" - pupil "can´t we just pipe this to grep 
and..." - teacher "do as your told, you don´t have to understand 
anything, thats not why you´re here"
</mode>

and yes, there were capital letters, only, then.

scnr,
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