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From: dan@scooter.rosemount.com (Dan Messinger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Should login xterms show /etc/motd?
Message-ID: <9011@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 90 13:06:39 GMT
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In article <678@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>, baur@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Steven
L. Baur) writes:
|> What I'd like to see is a program that can take a text file (determine
|> a minimum amount of screen space) and just display it with a button
|> to click on when the user is done reading it.

Have you looked at xlogin?  I believe it handles everything that you have
mentioned.