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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sending command from one terminal to another. Post 302641011 by Corona688 on Tuesday 15th of May 2012 02:08:49 PM
Old 05-15-2012
Terminals don't evaluate anything as commands.

Problem: When writing to the terminal, it goes to the screen. When reading from the terminal, it comes from the keyboard. That's just how it works.

To give arbitrary input to a terminal, you have to arrange to have the program run inside a virtual terminal you control. That's one thing the expect language can arrange for you...
 

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NCURSES_HAS_COLORS(3)							 1						     NCURSES_HAS_COLORS(3)

ncurses_has_colors - Checks if terminal has color capabilities

SYNOPSIS
bool ncurses_has_colors (void ) DESCRIPTION
Checks whether the terminal has color capabilities. This function can be used to write terminal-independent programs. ncurses must be ini- tialized using ncurses_init(3) before calling this function. PARAMETERS
This function has no parameters. RETURN VALUES
Return TRUE if the terminal has color capabilities, FALSE otherwise. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Writing a string with a specified color to the screen <?php ncurses_init(); // If the terminal supports colors, initialize and set active color if (ncurses_has_colors()) { ncurses_start_color(); ncurses_init_pair(1, NCURSES_COLOR_YELLOW, NCURSES_COLOR_BLUE); ncurses_color_set(1); } // Write a string at specified location ncurses_mvaddstr(10, 10, "Hello world! Yellow on blue text!"); // Flush output to screen ncurses_refresh(); ncurses_end(); ?> SEE ALSO
ncurses_can_change_color(3), ncurses_start_color(3). PHP Documentation Group NCURSES_HAS_COLORS(3)
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