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From: jmccorm@galaxy.galstar.com (Josh McCormick)
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: 19 Jun 1994 02:23:00 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:

: 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).

I've downloaded the perl menu script. Looks simple enough to configure.
However, cursesperl is not. I'm running bsd386/1.1 and I can't get perl
to compile so that I can go into the usub directory to compile
cursesperl. This little problem has had me stumped for over a week now.
Can anyone provide a copy of cursesperl that'll work right out of the
archive?!?


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