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From: ken@hpclkms.HP.COM (Ken Sumrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: VT100 emulator problem.
Message-ID: <1270023@hpclkms.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Nov 89 03:00:38 GMT
References: <17537@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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>I've managed to get a VT100 emulator working with my direct-connect SX212,
>but a strange thing has happened (as strange things are wont to do).  When I
>first call into my Unix account at the local university, the software displays
>upper and lower case, but as soon as I've entered my password, all I get is
>upper case.  More precisely, all lower case letters are displayed as upper case
>letters, and any upper case letters are preceded by a "\".  I assume that this
>is what is being transmitted by the Unix system, because this sort of thing
>doesn't happen when I call a simple BBS.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas?

Yup!  I got an idea.

You are typing in your username in upper case, so UNIX thinks that your
terminal is only capable of upper case.  (Remember, UNIX is case sensitive.)
So the obvious thing to do is hit the CAPS-LOCK key to go into lowercase
mode.

Ken Sumrall
HP California Language Labs
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