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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:10978 comp.sys.sun.admin:31586 comp.unix.user-friendly:2494 comp.unix.bsd:14183 comp.unix.questions:50709 comp.unix.admin:20203 comp.os.linux.help:38409 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!boulder!opsnews!lip 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 Lines: 24 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: refuge.colorado.edu 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