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In article <1992Sep29.081950.23241@nntp.uoregon.edu> johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu (John Martin) writes:
>In article <19222@smoke.brl.mil>, gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>
>>enquiring end.  The VT100 lets you program this "answerback code"
>>in SET-UP mode by, I think, Ctrl-A then a delimiter then the ident then
                               ^^^ actually Shift-A  
>>another delimiter 
>
>
>Actually, *I* for one use it -- since you can trigger it by typing Ctrl-break,
>I store an oft-used dial sequence in it, then Ctrl-break dials the phone
>for me...

Found a copy of the VT100 user's manual, and it sez (page 12):
(paraphrased)
1. place terminal in set up mode B
2. press Shift-A (caps lock won't work here)
   You will see A = on the screen (near lower left).
3. Type a delimiter character (any character you're not gonna use in the
   message itself).  This delimiter character will not be part of the
   answerback message.  If you make a mistake, type the delimiter character
   again and go back to step 2.  No editing can be done, you just have to
   do it all over again.
4. Type in the message.  It can be up to 20 characters long.  Control 
   characters will look like a diamond symbol here.  So does <return>.
   It lets you use a <return> in your message.
5. Type the delimiter character again.  Then the message will disappear
   from the screen.
6. Save it, along with the other set-up settings, by doing Shift-S

To use the answerback: Ctrl-Break.

I used the answerback to store the phone number I dial in with.
It looked like A = xATDT5551234<return>x
                          ^ phony phone number
(The return looked like a diamond symbol, and I didn't get to
see the second x.  Now, I hit Ctrl-Break to dial up.  Thanks to John
above for this idea.