Dan Karron@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU (04/05/91)
Is there a unique string that wsh windows will reply to when interrogated as to what they are ? I ask them what they are(qterm terminal interrogation program), and they answer they are ansi terminals, which is nice, but confuses things when I try to run on real ansi terminals. They(wsh windows) should answer that they are ansi terminals, but if asked nicely , i.e., an alternate query string , they should respond politely that they are wsh windows so my login setup will run properly on iris wsh windows and ansi character terminals. By first asking if this is a wsh window, and getting a positive response, then I don't need to ask if they are ansi terminals. However, an ansi terminal won't respond to a wsh private query, and then when I do an ansi query, the ansi answerback is truely valid. A program expecting ansi terminal emulation will run properly in this setting because it will get a valid response to a ansi answerback query. You (I) can get into trouble if you have a console login that starts up graphics after testing that it is on console. If you run from the alternate console port (ttyd1) with an ansi terminal, your shell gets fooled into thinking that it is on the graphics console, and makes a mess. Someone may want to keep this in mind for 4.0 if it is not already in the works! Thanks, Dan. | karron@nyu.edu (e-mail alias ) Dan Karron, Research Associate | | Phone: 212 263 5210 Fax: 212 263 7190 New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue Digital Pager <1> (212) 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 <2> 10896 <3> <your-number-here> |