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From: kseel@world.std.com (kurt w seel)
Subject: Re: Menuing System
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 19:28:37 GMT
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Ian Smith (iansmith@salt.ncinter.net) wrote:
: Is there any sort of menuing system for BSDI I can get ahold of?
: I want to give novice users a menu rather than dumping them to
: a shell prompt.  I'll write one if I have to, bu would rather
: find an existing BBB-type meuing system somewhere for BSDI.  I
: tried some that were for Linux, but could not get them to compile.

: Thanks.

: --
: IanSMith@ncinter.net


 Ian,
 I have a few menuing programs including some from linux (most noably dialog).
You are welcome to them, but our ftp server is not serving anonamous yet.
 I have one I have been working on myself too, but it is not ready yet, and I
troll for help/comments regularly ...
 Another idea is to use tcl 7.4 / tk 4.0 which has a curses extension that 
drives the same widget functionality as the X version. I have begun testing
it here. If you are careful the same scripts can be run in both environments.
 If you or anyone else is interested, email me at kseel@montana.primetime.com.