From: belkin@teecs.UUCP (Hershel Belkin)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 13:45:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Determining terminal types
Message-ID: <29280008@teecs.UUCP>
Organization: Litton Systems, Toronto ONT
Path: utzoo!censor!teecs!belkin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
References: <1965@eastman.UUCP>

There is a program called "qterm" (I think I pulled it off the
comp.sources.unix archive) which uses a table-driven approach
to sending query strings to terminals.  I had to make one small
mod to the program in order to properly sense VT320 terminals,
but VT100, VT220, and all HP terminals are sensed properly (as
well as lots of other types, limited only by the configured
data table).  I run it from /etc/profile, and it works well,
even sending a string to the user's terminal indicating that
the system has "recognized" the terminal as a "whatever".

If you are unable to locate qterm, e-mail to me and I'll arrange
to send you a copy directly (about 165K compressed tar archive).

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