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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:10785 comp.sys.sun.admin:31080 comp.unix.user-friendly:2490 comp.unix.bsd:14133 comp.unix.questions:50347 comp.unix.admin:19963 comp.os.linux.help:36958 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!warwick!news.shef.ac.uk!sunc!ac3slh From: ac3slh@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (Stuart Herbert) 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 Followup-To: 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 Date: 7 Jun 1994 18:25:32 GMT Organization: Academic Computing Services, Sheffield University Lines: 19 Message-ID: <2t2e2s$8na@hippo.shef.ac.uk> References: <Robert_Hunt.gfwa@equinox.gen.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunc.shef.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Robert Hunt (Robert_Hunt@equinox.gen.nz) wrote: : 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 $$. : thanks : Robert H If you don't mind learning how to write shell scripts, dialog (available on sunsite.unc.edu, amongst others) is a superb front-end - it's used by the Slackware distribution. Stuart -- Stuart Herbert -- S.Herbert@shef.ac.uk