[HN Gopher] How terminal works. Part 1: Xterm, user input
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       How terminal works. Part 1: Xterm, user input
        
       Author : smartmic
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2024-05-20 19:37 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | ggm wrote:
       | I used to search for a couple of lines of code in the getty.c
       | program or its ancestors, which permitted ALL CAPS LOGIN because
       | teletypes and early VDU terminals included models without a shift
       | function. It made me ask myself how the password check was able
       | to function (and how strong the crypt function was) if the case
       | wasn't important.
       | 
       | They were removed from (at least) FreeBSD sometime in the 2.x
       | series I believe.
        
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