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- From: Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Auto Ansi Detect on BBS
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 18:36:00 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego
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- References: <0099BB15.3D8276B9@netins.net> <Hu2Tx*zTe@yaps.rhein.de>
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- arno@yaps.rhein.de (Arno Eigenwillig) wrote:
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- >In article <0099BB15.3D8276B9@netins.net>, tempest@netins.net writes:
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- >> Can someone tell me the sequence of ansi commands to send to a term to
- >> detect if they have ansi..
-
- >Sequences sent to an ANSI terminal yield no response, sequences
- >received from an ANSI terminal always describe user actions. Only
- >some Amiga-specific stuff is an exception to this.
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- Actually, you can ask the remote terminal to report its cursor position. If
- it responds, you can safely assume that there is SOME ansi compatability on
- the other end. I don't have the ANSI command sequences at hand, but it should
- be easy enough to find.
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