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- From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: II+ upper/lowercase ?
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 07:10:33 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- pads@ravel.udel.edu (Stephen J. Padbury) writes:
-
- >I recently received an old apple II+ with a modem. (Hayes micromodem II
- >300 baud) I am interested in using it for my e-mail account on the
- >UNIX based mainframes at the university. As you may or may not know,
- >UNIX is case sensitive. The II+ refuses to have anything to do with
- >Upper and lower case.
-
- Try logging in with the ][+ anyway. If you type your user id and password as
- all upper case, the unix system should accept it and configure your terminal
- for escaped upper case operation. This means you will see upper case letters
- instead of lower case letters, and escaped (preceded by a \ ) upper case
- letters instead of real upper case letters. The same transformation applies
- to what you type, so you can at least function on the unix system but it is
- definitely not ideal. This still happens to people who leave caps lock down
- as they login, and has been built into standard unixes for a long time, so
- it should work for you.
-
- Todd Whitesel
- toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
-