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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Termid (was: Re: Login (unique) problems with terminal emulations.)
Message-ID: <1075@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 4 Jan 90 10:31:07 GMT
References: <1030@dialogic.UUCP> <3153@taux01.UUCP> <266@zircon.UUCP>
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In article <266@zircon.UUCP>, davidb@Pacer.UUCP (David Barts) writes:

> This is a neat trick, basically what SET TERMINAL/INQUIRE does on
> VAX/VMS.  Go ahead and put it in your own .login or .profile, but
> *please* don't put it in the sitewide files.  There is a chance that
> if the terminal being used is not an ANSI terminal, the ANSI
> `who-are-you' escape sequence will be far from innocuous.

In fact, there are even a couple of VTxxx- compatible terminals and
PC-based emulators that hangs when they see the <ESC> Z or the other
(don't remember exactly what it is) escape sequence used to have the
terminal report its type back to the host.


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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
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