Enabling/Disabling CAPS key in HP-UX Korn Shell program

[Bala_4]

Hi All

I am trying to automatically enable CAPS key thru my shell program, so that when user inputs, the characters entered will be in CAPITAL Letters, and once he exist the function, the CAPS key should be turned off. I beleive this can be done using "tput" command.

Can anyone help ????

Thanks

Bala

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Bala:

# stty iuclc

...JRF...

[Bala_4]

Hi James

Thanks again.

I tried stty olcuc. Characters are now displayed in CAPS. After that I tired to put it back to normal mode i.e caps off... it doesnot work. I tried stty iuclc

Please help

Thanks
Bala

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Hi,

From the man page for stty,

stty olcuc

will map lowercase characters to uppercase.

stty -olcuc

will turn off this setting.

--Bruce

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Bala:

# stty iuclc # disable CAPS key
# stty -iuclc # (re)enables CAPS key

# stty lcase # echo input & ouput in uppercase
# stty -lcase # reset

See man pages for 'stty'.

...JRF...