Re: Which emulator am I running

[John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>]

To expand on Rob's points:

If it's possible to accomplish your PC task using the shorter string,
then why not just use it, and not worry about which emulator is being
used?

If that's not possible, but it's possible to detect failure, then just
use the long string and give a message if it doesn't work.

The only case where there's a real benefit to detecting the emulator
would thus be when you can't use a short string AND you can't detect
failure. It seems unlikely to me that you can't detect failure, yet
you can detect specific enough emulator information. But I'm just
shooting from the hip here.

John Y.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:50 AM,  <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So how does one code for that, if you could determine the emulator in use?
>
> If they are not using the latest then send them the big string, otherwise
> send them a message:  "Your current terminal emulator is unable to run
> this option.  Please contact the help desk to get an upgrade if this
> support is necessary."?  Well, I guess that's one way to get the help desk
> moving.
>
> An alternative is to figure out how to get a shorter string to work.
>
> Is there a MONMSG you can put on the STRPCCMD which will say "the command
> was truncated" or some such thing?