[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these
Bob Koehler
koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Mon Mar 19 12:11:19 EDT 2012
In article <jk32ed$55k$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>
> Until not long ago, if you entered your username in all uppercase to
> Unix (most any variant), it would enter a mode where all your letters
> were internally converted to lowercase, on the assumption that you were
> sitting at a terminal that did not have lowercase letters... :-)
>
True, and it was then a major PITA to access mixed case files after
you logged in.
Did that once or twice by accident. Fortunately ^D is not case
sensitive. 8-)
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