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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: login doing stty lcase
Message-ID: <165@phri.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 13:03:53 EST
Article-I.D.: phri.165
Posted: Wed Jan 30 13:03:53 1985
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Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Many of our less sophisticated users occasionally manage to hit the caps-lock
key on their terminals when logging in, causing lcase mode to be set
(especially on adm-5's which default to caps lock on power-up!!).  This leads
to frantic phone calls when peoples' text files come out in upper case.  I am
considering disabling this 'feature' of login/getty/init on my system since
I can't ever imagine anybody ever needing it (when's the last time YOU used
an upper-case only tty?).

The question is, before I go ahead and do it, can anybody think of any
hidden reason why this might be a bad idea?
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