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Article #438Re: lowercase host names
From: tomlin
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 1985 01:15
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 1985 01:15
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> Many terminals do not satisfactorily show the difference between
> "1" (the numeral) and "l" (the letter). On the terminal I'm using,
> the difference is a single pixel. It is not at all obvious that
> "nyu-cmcl2" is "NYU-CMCL2" instead of "NYU-CMC12". Those long UUCP
> addresses get even worse.
>
> Getting a terminal with a better font is NOT the answer.
> -------
I would suggest getting a better terminal or getting glasses.
Blind rules (Lets make everything uppercase) never did anyone any good
I can make the same complaint of problems between differentiating between upper
case O and the number 0. Which is it:
DRI0 or DRIO (its dri0) Decision Resources, Inc.
VUBIO1 or VUBI01 (its vubio1) Biologisch Lab. der Vrije Universiteit,
afd. Plantenfysiologie,
werkgroep Fotosynthese
SMOCNAM or SM0CNAM (its sm0cnam) CNAM - Laboratoire d'Informatique
IEDLO2 or IEDL02 (its iedl02) Industrial Electronics Development Lab
General Electric
RIV04 or RIVO4 (its riv04) Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en
Milieuhygiene
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Bob Tomlinson - dspo!tomlin@LANL or {ucbvax!unmvax,ihnp4}!lanl!dspo!tomlin
Los Alamos National Laboratory - E-10/Data Systems
Los Alamos, New Mexico - (505) 667-8495
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