[Lazarus] Startup environment: to Gui, or not to GUI?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

On 11/04/17 10:00, Henry Vermaak via Lazarus wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:15:16AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus wrote:> Apologies if this is an FAQ.> > Is there an orthodox way that a Lazarus program can very early on look at> how it's been started and decide whether it can usefully fall back to a text> mode, e.g. to display help info on stdout rather than a messagebox?
> isatty() is traditionally used for this on POSIX operating systems.It's in unit termio.

Thanks Henry, I'll check. I know I've used it in the past when deciding 
whether a program was actually being fed piped input etc.

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