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From: edgester@news.holonet.net (Scott Teipe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Shell Menu, and other questions...
Date: 11 Sep 1995 18:26:48 GMT
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The Green Dragon (dragon@boi.hp.com) wrote:
: The Green Dragon (dragon@boi.hp.com) wrote:
: > I'm looking for a nice shell menu that I can setup for users who telnet into
: > my host machine.  Something I can set up so they can change their password,
: > read mail, edit files, ...
: [stuff deleted]

: Never mind, I found several, but couldn't get a single one to compile
: on BSDi.  So we dumped BSDi and went for a more supported OS.

: ... *sigh* not even one responce.

You have got to be joking, no support for BSDI?  BSDI tech support us
incredible! What is more supported than BSDI? Linux? jeezz A shell menu is 
so simple to write. If you cant write a simple input menu to perform a
function like passwd, then you have no business running a UNIX system.