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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers What is your favorite terminal? Post 302944831 by Corona688 on Friday 22nd of May 2015 11:41:15 AM
Old 05-22-2015
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Originally Posted by wisecracker
I especially got to grips with DEBUG.EXE and this is what I weened myself onto 80(88)(86) architecture assembly coding.

Hard going for a beginner to computer coding whose formal profession is an electronics engineer. It was a completely different mindset for me.
A hard introduction perhaps but not a terrible one. It teaches you the capabilities and limits of the machine from the first, a topic the programmers of this century seem to avoid until all their old bad habits become irreparable anyway.

By 'terminal' we do not mean the programs you run inside it, however.
 

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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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