[Sunhelp] Advice please: text mode gui for shell.

[Tom Lieuallen]

In perl, you can use use the perlmenu module (which requires the
Curses module).  It is a very nice package and works well as
a text interface.

Tom Lieuallen
 
> Quick question to all the programming mavens out there.
> 
> I have a small shell script which allows me to kill user processes. Now I wou
ld 
> like to be
> able to allow the operator to just select from a list of usernames with curso
r 
> keys and
> press Return to select. I know I could write some C to use curses, but this i
s 
> shell script,
> and it MUST work on vt100-compatible terminals, no X-windows/Motif etc.
> 
> Any recommendations for anything to use, Python, Perl, TCL/Tk, Perl/Tk, etc?
> 
> A heap of thanks to all...
> 
> Bob Cross, Systems Programmer, Scottish & Newcastle plc.
> 
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