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From: barryf@iol.ie (Barry Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Customizable Menu System? (curses)
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Date: 9 May 1994 13:45:22 GMT
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Dan Hickman (hickman@prism.tamu.edu) wrote:
: I am looking for a menu program that creates menus similar to
: gopher menus. I want to be able to create my own menu entries
: and specify what programs or scripts are executed when each
: menu item is selected. I am using FreeBSD 1.1 I have been
: working on a menu system programed in scripts but would like
: something with the advantages of curses (terminal independant,
: menu systems). If anyone knows of a slick menu system programmed
: using scripts (or C, non-curses) I would be interested in looking
: at that as well.
Check out lynx, the curses WWW browser. You can pick it up at
ftp2.cc.ukans.edu in /pub/lynx
You can telnet to iol.ie and log in as guest to see what's possible!
Hope this helps.
-Barry
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