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Some terminals support a programmable answerback string, and of course the ENQ control character to send it to the host. Some have programmable function keys an
by yuubi 6y ago
Some terminals support a programmable answerback string, and of course the ENQ control character to send it to the host. Some have programmable function keys and a command to read them, which often (always?) sends the programmed string as consecutive unencoded characters (instead of hex or something).
- gruez 6y agoConcrete example in sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26617412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26617412