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Subject: Re: Wanted!! :menuing system/menu-shell/visual shell for Unix BBS design
Message-ID: <1994Jun1.132012.14415@dfw.net>
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References: <Robert_Hunt.gfwa@equinox.gen.nz> <skunz.770394411@corvette.cc.iastate.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 13:20:12 GMT
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Steven L Kunz (skunz@iastate.edu) wrote:
: 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
We have written a menu shell that we are selling, if you are interested
send us email.
Jack