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To: "Wez Furlong" <kingwez@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:31:16 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Can someone allocate 2 command line switches for php cli
   on NetWare?
From: kameshj@fastmail.fm ("Kamesh Jayachandran")

Hi Wez,
We have bash ported to NetWare which is new addition to our Netware
distro.
But still people tend to use System Console to run their programs.
Basically this is the requirements from some of Netware customers to use
php interpreter for running some cron jobs which does not need any
pressanykey(No interactivity with the user).

For other regular scripts invoked manually by user needs sort of
interactivity before closing the screen.

Regarding the pressanykey we can use NetWare system defaults to have
prompt functionality upon exit without having any code to have
pressanykey code.

Still we need to have switches to have this interactivity or not(Based
on usage regular/cron)
We need one more switch to determine whether to have output in the
Logger screen(System wide log console) or Interpreter screen.

With regards
Kamesh Jayachandran


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:01:34 +0100, "Wez Furlong" <kingwez@gmail.com>
said:
> Doesn't netware have a standard wait or pause utility for this kind of
> thing?
> 
> It feels like PHP is the wrong place to add this kind of option; why
> should every application that runs on netware include code to open a
> screen?  Why should every application that runs on netware include
> press-any-key code?
> 
> Surely it is better to port a real shell and put the netware code in
> there instead?
> 
> --Wez.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:18:21 -0700, Kamesh Jayachandran
> <kameshj@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I need two cli switches to handle some special cases to NetWare specific
> > php invocation.
> > In linux and windows where shell and command prompt far live the php
> > interpreter invoked from them.
> > Both shell and command prompt will capture the output of the child php
> > interpreter.
> > In NetWare OS, php cli for that matter most programs are not invoked
> > from environments like shell/command prompt.
> > They are invoked directly from System Console which is in some sense
> > similar to "init" of Linux.
> > This makes the program to have their own Screen.
> > Upon exit of the program the screen will close and the user can not see
> > the output anymore.
> > To solve this issue we have 'pressanykey' prompt under ifdef for NetWare
> > in php cli code before calling exit..
> > 
> > This introduces another problem of scripts to always wait for user to
> > press any key before closing the screen.
> > 
> > So we need a command line switch to conditionally prompting for user's
> > attention 'pressanykey'.
> > 
> > Another command line switch we need is to conditionally open or not to
> > open the screen at all.
> > 
> > Currently I could see g, j, k, o, p, t,u, x, y not being used.
> > 
> > Can I make use of any two of them?
> > 
> > With regards
> > Kamesh Jayachandran
> > 
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