On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 03:08:27AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > Hello, folks. > > > Some friend told me about a problem he has with Slack7.1, and I tested > with Debian 2.2 (upgraded from net) and worked the same. Let me explain: > > Make sure CAPS-LOCK is off; > In a console logon, press CAPS-LOCK before typing your login name; > Type in your login name and press Enter. The word PASSWORD will be show > all caps; > Press CAPS-LOCK again and type your password an press Enter. > > 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. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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