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From: skunz@iastate.edu (Steven L Kunz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Wanted!! :menuing system/menu-shell/visual shell for Unix BBS design
Date: 31 May 94 14:26:51 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <skunz.770394411@corvette.cc.iastate.edu>
References: <Robert_Hunt.gfwa@equinox.gen.nz>
NNTP-Posting-Host: corvette.cc.iastate.edu
Keywords: Unix BBS
In <Robert_Hunt.gfwa@equinox.gen.nz> Robert_Hunt@equinox.gen.nz (Robert Hunt) writes:
>I am putting together an internet connected BBS here in the Sth Pacific...
>it needs to have a clear menu system for newusers ... not the prompt :-)
>
>Hopefully there is something that will run on SunOS 4.1.3 or FreeBSD ..
>perhaps Linux... very interested to know what may out there.. for ftp?
>or for $$.
If you are willing to write in "perl" (not a bad language to learn for many
tasks) you might want to try "menu.pl", a full-screen curses-based menu
package. It has the advantage that it is easy to use and already in use at
several sites around the world for this very purpose. The package comes
with demo scripts to get you started. The major disadvantage is that you
have to construct a special version of "perl" called "curseperl" (which is
regular perl linked with your "curses" library). The "curseperl" package is
constructed using the contents of the "usub" directory of the standard
"perl" distribution ("perl" is a Larry Wall product).
The current version of "menu.pl" is version 2.3 and is available in
tar'd/compressed or shar'd distributions via anonymous FTP from
"ftp.iastate.edu" in the directory "pub/perl". Docs and demos are included.
--
Steven L. Kunz
Networked Applications
Iowa State University Computation Center, Iowa State University, Ames IA
Internet: skunz@iastate.edu Bitnet: gr.slk@isumvs.bitnet