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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation
Date: 26 Apr 2011 10:11:54 -0400
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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In article <ip5jep$ua9$1@dont-email.me>,
glen herrmannsfeldt  <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>In comp.os.vms Richard <legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com> wrote:
>(snip, someone wrote)
>>>Hah!  I remember the ADM-3A's in the computer center lab at college.  The
>>>terminal was locked into all-caps mode.  The Unix people, who needed lower
>>>case, [...]
> 
>> Its possible to use unix from a upper-case only terminal.  There are
>> stty modes to translate uppercase characters to lowercase characters
>> with an escape character for when you truly need uppercase characters.
>
>As well as I remember, if you login with your username all upper
>case, then it turns on the case conversion mode, such that you escape
>them if you want them to stay upper case.

This was the case for Ultrix and SunOS.

It is no longer the case any more... Solaris and the last few NetBSD
revisions no longer support uppercase-only mode.
--scott
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