Menus for non-Linux users

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Thanks. I sent that to him. If he wants something a bit different, then 
another solution might work. 
On 9 Sep 2002 at 14:54, Scott Prive wrote:

> Not a menu toolkit, but it sounds like you might want 'mc' (midnight commander). I think you can associate scripts to hotkeys to extend it somewhat.
> 
> I'm not big on the text-based toolkits, but they are out there. I seem to recall about 12 months ago, there was an interesting announcement that Qt had been ported to the console (!!!). 
> 
> Of course, some bits were nonfunctional stubs, but apparently it was usable. I tried to recall the link and could not, but someone might remember... 
> 
> -Scott
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf at blu.org]
> > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 12:04 PM
> > To: discuss at blu.org
> > Subject: Menus for non-Linux users
> > 
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a text based menu system for Linux. 
> > (Actually, there 
> > used to be many years ago a shell called vsh, but I have not 
> > seen that 
> > around for 20 years). 
> > 
> > I certainly can write one in Perl for this particular user, 
> > but I'd rather 
> > take something that exists and customize it rather than spend 
> > the time 
> > writing it myself. (My initial response to him is to give him 
> > a short list 
> > of Linux commands).
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