On Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:04 AM, Billy Abbott [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Adam Turoff wrote: > > > Early versions of unix supported monocased terminals. I remember a > > professor telling me that if you logged in and your username was > > allcaps, the tty would go into a compatability mode AND DISPLAY > > EVERYTHING IN UPPERCASE, EXCEPT FOR CAPITAL LETTERS LIKE \A AND \B > > WHICH WOULD APPEAR WITH A PRECEDING BACKSLASH. > > VMS isn;t quite that nasty (although it fills my days with a constant > nagging pain), but it has no idea of case, does most everythign in caps, > and ignores illegal characters typed in passwords without giving you a > warning, as well as ignoring case in passwords...
VMS++ I &heart; VMS It also uppercases the echoing of characters, when the application program wants uppercase data. Nice. You do get some interesting effects when VMS connects to an NFS mount on a Unix box. IIRC they use $ signs in the filespec to indicate a case override (such as an upper case character on the Unix side). > > it does have built in file versioning and an advanced beard growing plugin > though... Some Unixes , AIX I believe, have file versioning that can be enabled as a feature. But this is usually turned off for compatibility. I remember what it was like to have many versions of a file - What did it look like before I started fiddling with it ;-), Let's see if we can track the last version that worked. Lazy practices admittedly, but it saved me needing to go back to backup on many occasion. I also remember that VMS files have more date/times on them than on Unix - Created date, Modified date, Date last backed up. </reminiscence>
