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History Many teletypes contained a small wheel with sixteen rows of eight tabs each. By breaking off selected tabs, a sequence of up to sixteen ascii characters could be specified. When the teletpye received a an ENQ, the device was triggered, causing the characters to be sent as though typed by the operator.
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Modern Usage Answerback
On terminals and terminal emulators, receipt of an ENQ character generally causes a string of printable characters followed by a newline to be sent. This string may identify the type of terminal or terminal emulation. |
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