"(Ted Harding)" wrote: > The point goes back to the very early days of UNIX, when the user > was quite likely to be logging in from a very primitive teletype > that could only do capitals (5- or 6-bit serial line). > > UNIX was set up to recognise login with capital letters and use > capitals for the rest of the session, precisely to handle this.
This actually makes perfect sense. Thanks for the info. MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/
