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From: gerwitz@Kodak.com (Paul Gerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Determining terminal types
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Date: 7 Jun 91 15:13:07 GMT
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Originator: gerwitz@hpcore

We have an application which might be accessed either by VT100 terminal
users or HP terminal users.  We would like to be able to automatically
differentiate the terminal types without user intervention.  We can send a
HP terminal ID escape sequence out the tty device and get a good answer
back from HP terminals, but obviously non-hp terminals wont respond.  Is
there a general purpose method to do that without prompting the user with
tset or hard setting the id's in the /etc/ttytype file ?
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