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From: joseph@aludra.usc.edu (Jeff Lawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: How do you detect a remote user's terminal emulation?
Date: 31 Aug 1992 21:25:14 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu



I know it is possible to automagically detect if a remote user calling
in on a modem is using a specific emulation, but I am curious as to
how it is done.  I have seen several BBS (I think they were PCboard)
that can detect ANSI and another computer that I know of can detect
VT100.  Thanks!


					Jeff Lawson
					joseph@aludra.usc.edu
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From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Why do people want PD software?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 23:27:13 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:

>I hope you realize that there is much more to programming than just
>producing executables. For example, a significant portion of time is
>spent on debugging. It is _very_ difficult to debug with the f2c 
>translators. You must debug a barely readable code in C, rather than
>Fortran. As a debugger, GDB from the FSF is much inferior to PC debuggers
>such as CodeView from Microsoft.
The most superiour debugging tool is, IMHO, printf or any equal command or
function in any other language.

>optimizing compiler, but people need good debuggers to work efficiently.
>Thats where the FSF fails.
Go and write your own or change GDB. No one will stop you!

>Why did not the FSF did not write a decent FORTRAN compiler throughout 
>its existence ?
Let me guess, because it has no high priority?

>Even now there is only a single person involves in it and it proceeds very
>slowly.
Then why don't you give that poor soul some help?

>Probably because FOrtran is not a hacker's language, but many people need it.
And many don't.

Greetings,
Peter Busser
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: boltz@chopin.psu.edu (Mark Boltz)
Subject: Re: OS2 - What is it ?
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 19:55:54 GMT

It has been stated in this thread that the boot manager of OS/2 2.0 allows
several partitions for several different operating systems to share the
same disk.  This is all well and good, but someone also stated that the diff
OS's can't read each others partitions.  This statement is only partially
true.  If OS/2 is installed using the FAT for both OS/2 and DOS, they will/
should interchange, regardless of which u boot with.  OS/2 will read DOS and
others when you boot with it, regardless of the file system.  DOS will not
recognize an OS/2 partition if you use HPFS, the newer high performance file
system for OS/2.

Felt like clearing that up...thanks

if i'm wrong, don't bother flaming me, just make a kind correction
-----
Boltz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: swartz@fraser.sfu.ca (Norman Swartz)
Subject: Re: DD->HD 3.5 disks
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:46:02 GMT

bkpipa@eos.ncsu.edu (BRIAN KEITH PIPA) writes:


>I have a friend who converts his DD 3.5 inch disks to
>HD by putting the extra hole in the disk.  He says he hasn't
>had any trouble doing this, but some lab administrators here
>say it shouldn't be done.

>I know they even sell a tool to do this for you.

>Anybody else do this and what kind of success have you had?

>Any comments, opinions are welcome.

>Thanks
>-- 
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>   North Carolina State        |        nacturations are to me ...           |
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I tried it once.  Two days later the disk was unreadable.  This was the
only time I had a 3.5" disk which lost data.  I have never repeated
the experiment.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: kelley@vet.vet.purdue.edu (Stephen Kelley)
Subject: Re: OS2 - What is it ?
Organization: Purdue University SVM
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 23:04:26 GMT

In article <DNZ8PB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> chrisr@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Ringe) writes:
-
- Actually, you can have only 3, since each OS is setup on a separate 
- PRIMARY PARTITION.  You are only allowed 3 primaries and one extended per 
- hard drive.  However, I haven't tried to setup a PRIMARY with a second 

No, this first sentence is not accurate. 

OS/2 can be installed on a logical drive in an extended partition.  

This logical drive can be formatted as HPFS.

Boot Manager can see and start OS/2 from a logical drive.
 
OS/2 on a logical drive can see and use space on a DOS (FAT) primary
partition.

This is not theory.  This is fact.

Steve
From: arshad@siesoft.co.uk (Arshad Mahmood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: shareware multilingual WP for PC
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:18:07 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Is there a shareware/freeware multilingual wordprocessor for IBM pc that I
can ftp ? I am particularly interested in languages that are written from
right to left such as Arabic,urdu,Farsi etc.

Thanks in advance.

arshad

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Arshad Mahmood                               |  Tel   : 0344 850987
Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Limited  |  Fax   : 0344 850096
Siemens Nixdorf House                        |  email : arshad@siesoft.co.uk
Oldbury, Bracknell
Berkshire RG12 4FZ
England.
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From: larryd@milton.u.washington.edu (Larry Desoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:31:56 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

ROYBAL@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:

[...]

>Hmm... My wife uses WordPerfect, and prefers it to / was unimpressed by
>MicroLimp Werd 4 Windoze. I use the MS product, 'cause it's free; my group
>leader bought it, along with Excel and Windows, under the assumption that
>"they were all written by the same company, so they should all work fine
>together, right?" -- but that's another tale of sorrow and shame...

Yeah, charts made by excel and imported into Word are 1) not the same
size if printed directly, 2) not in the same place if printed directly.
Yuck, hiss...
From: carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Speaking of Window NT
Date: 31 Aug 92 20:16:17 GMT
	<1992Aug27.113905.19790@actrix.gen.nz>
	<17mnt5INNdki@agate.berkeley.edu>
	<1992Aug31.161704.17154@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: cantor@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 31 Aug 92 16:17:04 GMT
bcc: carl


>16 megs of RAM, and it's performance is certainly acceptable.  It took about
>20+ demo programs running at the same time before we noticed an appreciable
>CPU slowdown.  If you want slow, try OS/2 on a 4 meg 386.

You said acceptable but not outstanding?

#1) Demo Programs are not typical use of a system.  They tend to use
    a very small fraction of the resources that are used when a complete
    version of the application is running.

#2) At least OS/2 *WILL* run on a 4 meg system - you can't even INSTALL
    Windows NT on a 4 meg system!!! ***OR*** for that matter on an
    *8* meg system!!!  It takes 12 meg to even INSTALL Windows NT!!!
    Talk about a memory pig (or did Bill Gates just buy a lot of
    stock in the DRAM manufacturers :^) ).

-Carl-
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From: dakos@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Dennis Akos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Need HardDrive info for CMOS, Aga! Sorry!
Keywords: CMOS
Date: 28 Aug 92 00:16:47 GMT
Organization: Ohio University C.S. Dept, Athens


     Would the kind souls who gave me the initial info be able
to post the specs I requested (Cyln, Heads, Sectors, Size) for a
Seagate ST 251 -1 drive, I neglected to include the (-1) and am
wondering if this makes a difference. I need this info to
config my cmos (AMI-89 cmos)

If you're interested the Seagate ST-251
Cylinders = 820
Heads = 6
Sectors = 17
Size = 42 MB

I apologize to all for the xtra bandwidth, I didn't think
to save the messages. And to the person from the UK who mail me
(I believe it was a report which included the -1 model) your message
was dump to the core and garbled when I tried to review it

da
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: indaleci@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Laurel Indalecio)
Subject: Tseng Labs ET-4000 SVGA: Opinions Solicited
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:41:41 GMT

I want to dump my buggy Trident TVGA 8800 SVGA card and get another
cheap SVGA card that's faster and has no bugs.  I'm looking at get-
ting Tseng Lab's ET-4000 SVGA card for $99 mail order.

Is Tseng Lab's still the best among the low-cost non-co-processed
SVGA cards out there?  Better than the Trident 8900 variety?  Does
Tseng have good customer and application support?

When I purchase the Tseng Lab ET-4000 SVGA card, are there any
versions I should look out for?  IE, if the card is an ET-4000,
does that automatically mean it has the latest chip set?  And if
there is one, what would be the latest version or update?

What does ET-4000 indicate?  I've seen plain VGA (640x480) ,
Super VGA (1024x768) and the new Super-Duper VGA (1280x1024
and a few million colors) from Tseng Labs all called ET-4000
boards.

Thanks for any help.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: cougar@acm.rpi.edu (Erik Collin)
Subject: How many people program?
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:11:59 GMT


A friend and I were chatting and the question of how many people
that own PCs do any of their own programming?  This question could 
be answered in a number of ways depending on what you consider 
"programming".  In this case lets define programming as the use of
a language such as BASIC, Pascal, C, COBOL, Lisp and the like.  Things
such as DBase don't count.  There is also the question of just who we 
want to include in our group of users.  Should people like secretaries 
who use a PC to do word processing and spread sheets be counted?  Should 
people that are requiered to program (like students) be counted?  
I dunno...

Lets do this:  What percentage people that buy a PC of any type for home 
use end up writing their own programs in one of the above mentioned 
languages?  And, what percentage use a language other than BASIC?

My guesses (I really have nothing to base this on):
   all languages: 20%
   all languages excluding BASIC: 10%

Your guess?  Comments?  Flames?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: cive1em@jane.uh.edu (Chuang, Lu-chia)
Subject: Need help on .ZIP file
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:14:00 GMT

Hello, I need to convert a ****.ZIP file to a text file.
How should I do? Do I need to buy a software?
Or can I get shareware from some FTP sites?

Thanks in advance.

-LUkE
From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Trident VGA, QEMM 6.02 and applications
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:58:29 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Organization: University of Helsinki

In <25AUG199211172557@kubvx1> jorna@kubvx1 (AEGEE-Tilburg, Remco Jorna) writes:

>Can anybody please tell me the memory-areas the TRIDENT 8900 vga card uses.
>When I install it together with QEMM 6.02 and run Windows or Ventura the
>application will lock up with the message the the B000 area is already in use
>(this happens when I use the 800x600 or 1024x768 driver). Right now I've
>disabled the area from B000 to CBFF, but don't consider this to be
>satisfactiory.

Hmm. My QEMM line excludes B000-BFFF (the monochrome display area), and
everything works fine.

The memory taken by the 8900 is: 64K VGA - 32K Mono (normally unused) -
32K text. Or something to that effect, anyways.

-- 
               Juha Liukkonen, aka jliukkon@cc.helsinki.fi
       University of Helsinki, Dept. of Paranormal Investigations
           "Trust me, I know what I'm doing." - Sledge Hammer
From: ching@angelo.amd.com (Mike Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Desqview/X
Date: 25 Aug 92 01:12:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA

In article <1992Aug24.173537.11613@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
>
>     Also, what are the base system requirements for Desqview/X?  The
>glossy brochure in the last Byte didn't say, at least not anywhere I
>could find!
>
>				Marc R. Roussel
>                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca


DV/X uses around 10-11 Meg of disk space and can run in 4Meg of RAM.
You need 8Meg of RAM to multitask significant applications though.
EGA or VGA video (no Hercules graphics support is available) is required.
I don't think the 286 version has been released so a 386 is the
base CPU. Lots of RAM and fast I/O (disk and video) contribute more
to good performance than faster CPUs and I am satisfied with a
386SX-33, 8Meg RAM and a 0 wait state ET4000 VGA card.

Mike Ching
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sommer@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: redirecting non-PS output to a file
Reply-To: sommer@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 21:00:32 GMT

I'm using a DOS program that expects to print directly to a dinky
parallel printer of some sort. The computer is on a Novell network
with an HPIIIsi in PS mode, so I can't print anything. 

What I would like to do is redirect the output (from lpt1 or lpt2) to
a file so I could use some other utility to print it to the HPIIIsi or
transport by floppy to some other place. 

Tech support at the software place thought there was a utility
something like "lprx" or "lpxr" to do this. 

archie inundated me with lpr* items. Does anybody out there know
_where_ to get the _right_ thing? 

To clarify, if needed: the program will print to lpt1 or lpt2. I want 
to assign lpt1 or lpt2 to be a file, exit the program and print to the 
HP using some other utility transport by floppy to a computer at
another location that has a dot-matrix printer. Other suggestions to
solve this problem would be appreciated. 

I'd appreciate direct e-mail since I don't usually follow this group.

Thanks in advance. 

sommer@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
From: hamish@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au (Hamish Moffatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Can I use 8087 on 80286 motherboard?
Date: 28 Aug 92 04:16:05 GMT

In a msg on <Aug 07 00:14>, Iskandar Taib (ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu )
writes:

>>  The Math Co. for the 487 is *built in*.....

 IT> I'm surprised none of our net.nit.pickers haven't seen this yet. 
 IT> I think he meant a *486* has a math co-processor built in  

Well, the 487 would have a coprocessor builtin I'm sure, if there was one :-)

Hamish
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jons@tellus.unik.no (Jon von Tetzchner Stephenson )
Subject: PC Sequencer
Organization: Universitetsstudiene paa Kjeller (UNIK), University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 08:59:46 GMT

I am looking for a PC sequencer, preferably running under Windows or OS/2.

I would like a easy to use, but powerful sequencer sporting:

	Editing of all MIDI data (also insertion of CCs and SysExs).
	Support of Soundblaster Pro sound + MIDI port.
	Support of Roland GS or at least General MIDI standards.
	Easy looping, cut, paste, etc.
	Multiple sequences.
	Extract from sequences.
	etc.

Oh, and it should preferably be cheap.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Jon.

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* Jon v. Tetzchner Stephenson. *
* 	jonst@ifi.uio.no       *
*       jons@hal.nta.no        *
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From: forest@soda.berkeley.edu (Forest Edward Wilkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Q: Are the Baud Rate and BPS same?
Keywords: modem
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:34:57 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Aug28.155701.218@news2.cis.umn.edu> smahn@vx.cis.umn.edu (Seokmin Ahn) writes:
>The advertisement about modems confused me about Baud rate and BPS.

A baud is a change in the state of either carrier tone on a modem
connection.  It is often mistaken for "Bits Per Second" (bps), which
is the actual rate at which data is transfered on a modem connection.
Many people use the two terms interchangably.

If someone says they have a 9600 baud modem, they probably mean 9600
bits per second, as true 9600 baud is not feasible on the telephone
lines of today.  Come to think of it, unless you are engaged in a very
technically accurate conversation, it's pretty safe to assume that
when people say "baud" they mean "bits per second".

For more information, check out comp.dcom.modems.
-- 
Forest Edward Wilkinson
forest@soda.berkeley.edu
From: ebrown@bud_light.kodak.com (Eric Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Read Macintosh floppies on a PC?
Date: 24 Aug 92 03:43:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: bud_ligh.EBROWN.92Aug23234347
Reply-To: ebrown@tap.kodak.com
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company


Does anybody know of a way to read Macintosh high-density (and possibly 800k)
floppy disks?

Thanks in advance,
Eric Brown
ebrown@tap.kodak.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps
From: craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division)
Subject: Re: Why do people want PD software?
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:33:24 GMT


bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:

>Why did not the FSF did not write a decent FORTRAN compiler throughout 
>its existence ?

Funny, no matter how many times I read this, it sounds like a complaint! :-)

Craig
--
Craig Richmond.  Computer Officer -  Dept of Economics (morning) 380 3860
  University of Western Australia    Dept of Education (afternoon)
craig@ecel.uwa.edu.au                              Dvorak Keyboards RULE!
     "Only users are allowed to make messes on their computers"  I.M.VI
From: cantor@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott eric cantor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Speaking of Window NT
Keywords: Microsoft, Window_NT, SLOW
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:44:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: cis.1992Sep4.164436.2290
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science

In article <1992Sep3.200850.17633@microware.com> kris@microware.com (Kris Hoffmeyer) writes:
>In article <1992Aug31.161704.17154@cis.ohio-state.edu> cantor@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott eric cantor) writes:
>>>According to a friend who's running Window NT beta, it is slow as hell...
>>>(he equated it to Window 3.1 running on 286 with 1MB of RAM) And mind you,
>>>he's running Window NT on a 486DX-50 with 32 MB RAM and 1.2 GIG HD...
>>
>>	I don't know what the heck your friend's doing, but I can practically
>>guarantee you it's something wrong.  We have NT running on a Dell 483/33 with
>>16 megs of RAM, and it's performance is certainly acceptable.  It took about
>>20+ demo programs running at the same time before we noticed an appreciable
>>CPU slowdown.  If you want slow, try OS/2 on a 4 meg 386.
>
>Just a question...  What exactly is acceptable?  Especially considering
>you're running on a 486/33?  Did you try running NT on a 4 meg 386?
>
>Kris.

	Acceptable means as fast as OS/2 on an 8 meg 386/33.  Yes we are
using a 486/33, and yes it has 16 megs.  If you'll notice, I was replying to
a complaint from someone talking about a 486/50 with 32 Megs!  So it's
clear that something unusual (not representative of most machines) is going
on there.  NT on a 4meg 386 would be terrible.  Guess what?  So is OS/2, cause
we tried that too.

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From: yhlin@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu (yue-herng lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Best Cache program ?
Date: 29 Aug 92 18:41:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Aug29.234152.15518
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington

I use HyperDisk Ver 4.31. It work just fine. Except the hot keys, the memory
management is impressive. It graped all memory as cache, then return memory
(size predefined by user) if there's program (eg: Windows) need memory.
Besides, it's cheap. :)

YH
From: rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: How does one get a read a OIC-250 tape written on a workstation on a PC?
Date: 26 Aug 92 22:56:23 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Advanced Systems, Fremont CA


Forgive me this silly question.

What kind of software does one need to read a QIC-250 tape on a PC?
I'd like to read a tape created on a workstation on a PC. Thanks.
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From: hippo@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.databases
Subject: Re: Wanted: A scheduling package for tracking room reservations
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:49:10 GMT
Organization: Sonoma state university

In article <1992Sep4.051912.18286@rock.concert.net> toddwall@rock.concert.net (Todd R Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services) writes:
>Subject: Wanted: A scheduling package for tracking room reservations
>From: toddwall@rock.concert.net (Todd R Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services)
>Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 05:19:12 GMT
>
>	Does anyone know of a package that is use to track the 
>scheduling of rooms for meetings?  We have 3 meeting rooms and would
>like for the staff to run a program on the LAN and be able to see if a 
>room is available, and to reserve it if it is free.
>
>	Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>-- 
>o o ______           _     _____  _  _ o o  "But the fruit of the Spirit is
>' '   /       /   / ' )   /      // // ' '   love, joy, peace, patience,
>     / ______/ __/   / / / __.  // //        kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
>   _/ (_) (_/_(_/_  (_(_/ (_/|_</_</         gentleness and self-control."
We use Meeting Maker to perform this task.

Michel Davidoff
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
From: bws@ccs.carleton.ca (Brian Sullivan)
Subject: Re: How do you detect a remote user's terminal emulation?
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:07:53 GMT

In article <la5s5aINNaga@aludra.usc.edu> joseph@aludra.usc.edu (Jeff Lawson) writes:

>I know it is possible to automagically detect if a remote user calling
>in on a modem is using a specific emulation, but I am curious as to
>how it is done.  I have seen several BBS (I think they were PCboard)
>that can detect ANSI and another computer that I know of can detect
>VT100.  Thanks!

Most terminals older than 8 years will respond to an answer
back request. On DEC VTxxx products and anything that emulates
them, the string is esc [ 0 c. (esc is decimal 27, all others are plain
text.

IF the terminal understands the request, it will reply. ON a VT
100 with a esc [ ? 1 ; 0 c.