On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> > BTW: Thanks to Michael for the new booter. The countdown works on my
> > machine. But why can't I type uppercase letters at the prompt of the
> > booter? I can type "(#!)" but not "HURZ". Bug or feature? (I am using a
> > vt100 compatible WYSE terminal for console.)
> > 
> Well...
> 	if (c < 96 && c > 64)
>                 c += 32;
> in consio.c obviously converts all letters to lowercase.
> IIRC it is added because the ROM console routines on some VAX only returns
> upper-case letters.
> 
	Hmm - could you conditionalise this on 'only if we have not yet
	seen a lowercase character'?

	That would allow people to boot 'netbsd.OLD' or similar :)