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From: lip@refuge.Colorado.EDU (Paul Li)
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: 19 Jun 1994 15:09:31 GMT
Organization: for Disorganization
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Message-ID: <2u1n3b$j30@roadkill.Colorado.EDU>
References: <Robert_Hunt.gfwa@equinox.gen.nz> <skunz.770394411@corvette.cc.iastate.edu> <2u0a64$j2l@noc1.mid.net>
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In article <2u0a64$j2l@noc1.mid.net>,
Josh McCormick <jmccorm@galaxy.galstar.com> wrote:
>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?!?

If you want something that is a shell, rather than perl stuff, there is
a shell called (get this...) vsh.

Paul Li