Comment 13 for bug 1297051

We use answerback extensively in order to identify the make and model of terminal i.e. every terminal that we have, physical or emulated, is configured to respond to ENQ with its make and model (followed by a carriage return).

In an ideal world we would not have to do this because every terminal emulator would emulate perfectly the make and model of real terminal that it claims to emulate.

Knowing the actual make and model allows us to account for quirks and limitations of individual emulations e.g. knowing that I have to send ESC[?40h for a width change.

Considering that the code bothers to recognise the ENQ - but deliberately sends no response - even if it just returned the value of an environment variable that I can set, that would be workable, although a command line argument or something out of the profile would be better.

Bear in mind that the starting point of this was ... why am I using PuTTY and what would have to change in gnome-terminal for it to replace PuTTY? Answerback works in PuTTY.