userid all-caps makes screen output all-caps.

[Terrence Enger]

At 16:09 2003-09-20 -0400, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>Henry Spencer wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Terrence Enger wrote:
> > 
> > > For funny reasons, I would to have a user id which is named 
> > > with all capital letters.  However makes my screen sessions 
> > > display in all capital letters.  Is there a way to avoid this 
> > > effect on the screen?
> > 
> > 
> > This is a feature, albeit an extremely old one.  If you log in with an
> > all-caps login name, the login program concludes that you must be using an
> > uppercase-only keyboard/terminal/whatever, and adjusts system settings
> > accordingly. 
> > 
> > Try the command "stty -lcase", after logging in.  I don't recall any
> > automatic way to turn this behavior off.
>
> Adding that command to ,bashrc would do it.

Thank you, all.  That is exactly what I was looking for.

<aside>Speakng of upper-case only terminals, has anybody
else here programmed using a model 33 teletype?</aside>

Terry.


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