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From: Erik Evensen
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:57

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>>>>> On Tue, 13 Oct 1992 05:32:44 GMT, tlm@iastate.edu (Dr. T.L. Marchioro II) said:

tlm> In <1992Oct13.021826.7369@ifi.unizh.ch> kluge@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (kluge daniel) writes:

>Ok, despite some other communication programms, I'm still working with the good old tip. Together with Stuart, it makes a
>fabulous VT-100 emulator, but I found some things, that I don't like at all:

tlm> I can't answer all of your questions, but at least a couple......

>1. Sometimes, I'm not able to write in lowercasse anymore, just in uppercase. That's not that bad in a chatter, but you're in a real
>f@#ed up situation, when this happens while a session on a case-sensitive environment like UNIX or LP-MUD!

tlm> Try hitting control-A  this toggles you between uppercase and lowercase and
tlm> when you're caught like this you've just accidentally hit it by mistake.
tlm> (wow, is that redundant or what! :-)

This can be _real_ annoying when using emacs; it is possible to remap
this behaviour by putting an appropriate entry in the .tiprc file; you
need to make an entry for the rc value; check out the man page for
tip; I forget what I mapped my rc to on my home machine.

--Erik

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