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- From: bws@ccs.carleton.ca (Brian Sullivan)
- Subject: Re: How do you detect a remote user's terminal emulation?
- Message-ID: <bws.34@ccs.carleton.ca>
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- Organization: Carleton University
- References: <la5s5aINNaga@aludra.usc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:07:53 GMT
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- In article <la5s5aINNaga@aludra.usc.edu> joseph@aludra.usc.edu (Jeff Lawson) writes:
-
- >I know it is possible to automagically detect if a remote user calling
- >in on a modem is using a specific emulation, but I am curious as to
- >how it is done. I have seen several BBS (I think they were PCboard)
- >that can detect ANSI and another computer that I know of can detect
- >VT100. Thanks!
-
- Most terminals older than 8 years will respond to an answer
- back request. On DEC VTxxx products and anything that emulates
- them, the string is esc [ 0 c. (esc is decimal 27, all others are plain
- text.
-
- IF the terminal understands the request, it will reply. ON a VT
- 100 with a esc [ ? 1 ; 0 c.
-