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Conference smurf::ultrix-beginners

Title:	Making ULTRIX easy

Moderator:	PLUGH::NEEDLE

Created:	Mon Mar 04 1991
Last Modified:	Mon Mar 31 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	831
Total number of notes:	3667

829.0. "Setting that makes all commands case-blind?" by NETCAD::MORRISON (Bob M. LKG2-A/R5 226-7570) Mon Feb 17 1997 17:10

  A coworker has encountered a problem that I can't figure out, and none of
the other people he as asked can.
  He is using Ultrix. Something has been set on the system and/or process
such that certain (all?) commands are case-insensitive. This is causing
trouble, and he wants to restore case sensitivity.
  Is there a setting that causes a session to be case-insensitive? The most
I have been able to find out in my research is that there is a setting called
"ignorecase" that does this. I have no idea what context this keyword is
used in, or what the opposite keyword is.
  Please copy me on your reply.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
829.1		CFSCTC::SMITH	Tom Smith MRO1-3/D12 dtn 297-4751	`Tue Feb 18 1997 11:16`	6
	stty [-]iuclc [disables]enables input upper->lower-case conversion. Don't know if that's the one you're looking for. Whatever's doing it must be in the default .login or .profile, though. -Tom
829.2		KERNEL::COFFEYJ	La Feline Flooz - a unix cat	`Thu Mar 27 1997 07:38`	9
	Something at the back of my memory says if you log in in upper case it assumes you have an uppercase only keyboard and ignores all casing from there on in.... Unfortunately it's at the very back of my memory and I can't quite remember how you resolve it, however i think there might have been a stars article on it too. Jo
829.3		NABETH::alan	Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.	`Mon Mar 31 1997 21:28`	6
	Actually, I think the tty driver maps all uppercase characters to lower case unless they're escaped. And the tty driver does the mapping the other way as well. It would map a B to \B. None of Digital UNIX V3.2C, ULTRIX V4.3, V4.4 or V4.5 appear to still offer the feature, though it could an option in gettytab.