Menus for non-Linux users

[nmeyers at javalinux.net (Nathan Meyers)]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 12:04:29PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 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).

"cdialog" provides some curses-based versions of common GUI components,
including menus, usable from shell scripts:

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdialog

It came with my Mandrake distro - might be common in others as well.

Nathan Meyers
nmeyers at javalinux.net


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