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From: fred@cbmvax.commodore.com (Fred Bowen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Desterm Question!
Message-ID: <15135@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Oct 90 22:24:02 GMT
References: <243.2713492B@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Reply-To: fred@cbmvax.commodore.com (Fred Bowen)
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In article <243.2713492B@zswamp.fidonet.org> Geoffrey Welsh writes:
> > From: grx0644@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Tony Schliesser)
> >
> > I have a question about desterm 2.00. What is the answerback option for??
> 
>normal terminal ID. This is often used to identify the manufacturer and/or 
>model of a terminal which emulates DEC codes.
> 
>   I don't know of any real reason for it, except maybe as a way for DEC to 
>find out who's emulating their equipment...

I use it simply as an extra "function key".  The answerback message is
transmitted on a VT100 upon receipt of ^E *or* the user typing ^BREAK.
So I define it to be a particular login command, and press ^BREAK to
invoke it.  I do this on an actual VT100 or my VT100-128; I have not
tried to do this using DESterm.

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