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Operating Systems AIX ls color Post 51229 by LivinFree on Thursday 13th of May 2004 08:14:42 PM

05-13-2004

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The only systems I've personally seen color in `ls` output is GNU/Linux systems.

That's because they're using GNU ls, from the GNU fileutils package. If you look at your aliases, you'll probably find that "ls" is an alias for "ls --color=tty", meaning that any time the output is a terminal, you'll get color (but not if output is a pipe or a file).

As far as I know, you can either compile and install GNU ls, or you may be out of luck.

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dwtfetchcolorliteral

DwtFetchColorLiteral(3Dwt)												DwtFetchColorLiteral(3Dwt)

Name
       DwtFetchColorLiteral - Fetches a named color literal from a UID file.

Syntax
       #include <X11/DwtAppl.h>
       int DwtFetchColorLiteral(hierarchy_id, index, display, colormap_id, pixel_return)
	    DRMHierarchy hierarchy_id;
	    String index;
	    Display *display;
	    Colormap colormap_id;
	    Pixel *pixel_return;

Arguments
       hierarchy_id
		 Specifies  the  ID of the UID hierarchy that contains the specified literal.  The hierarchy_id was returned in a previous call to
		 DwtOpenHierarchy.

       index	 Specifies the UIL name of the color literal to fetch.	You must define this name in UIL as an exported value.

       display	 Specifies the display used for the pixmap.  The display argument specifies the connection to the X server.  For more  information
		 on the Display structure see the Xlib function XOpenDisplay.

       colormap_id
		 Specifies the ID of the color map.  If NULL, the default color map is used.

       pixel_return
		 Returns the ID of the color literal.

Description
       The DwtFetchColorLiteral function fetches a named color literal from a UID file, and converts the color literal to a pixel color value.

Return Values
       This function returns one of these status return constants:

       DRMSuccess	 The   function   executed
			 successfully.
       DRMNotFound	 The color literal was not
			 found in the UIL file.
       DRMFailure	 The function failed.

See Also
       DwtFetchIconLiteral(3Dwt), DwtFetchLiteral(3Dwt)

															DwtFetchColorLiteral(3Dwt)