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From: sechrest@orstcs.cs.ORST.EDU
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Subject: Re: Menu software info wanted
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Date: Sat, 30-May-87 01:08:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 30 01:08:00 1987
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Nf-From: orstcs.cs.ORST.EDU!sechrest    May 29 22:08:00 1987


Here at Oregon State University, I have had a couple of students working
on a generic menu driver. It is designed as a way to tie regular
unix programs together in a menu. We have new user request form that
is generated by the newuser program which will allow the super user
to add an account from the menu. I use the program on my home machine
as the basis of a limited access login to my machine.

It is basically an interperator. It takes a file of screens and
places them on the screen. It has a limited notion of variables 
which you can alter interactivly. 

An Example screen:


		Title of the page that we are working on
		This can be two lines and is centered on the menu
		
	--> 1)	First Line of menu
	    2)  Second: set variable
	    3)  execute a command with a variable
	    4)  interactively get a variable value
	    5)	go to another file and screen number
	    
	    
	    
The cursor keys j and k move the selector. space + - 
and cr also move the cursor. help pops up on bad commands.

Here is the text that generated the screen.


% Screens are seperated by percent signs

Title of the page that we are working on
This can be two lines and is centered on the menu.

<First line of menu>!who
<Second: set variable>$files=*.c
<execute a command with a variable>!ls $files
<interactivly get a variable value>$files
<Go to another file and screen number 2>:screen.2:2:1

% end of screen



If this is of any interest, please send me a note. We have been working
to clean up some bugs and to expand the notion of variable (add scopes)
but it has sat for a term or two now. 

					John Sechrest
					Lab Coordinator
					Oregon State University
					Computer Science
					Corvallis, Oregon 97331
					sechrest@orstcs.csnet
					hplabs!hp-pcd!orstcs!sechrest
					(503) 754-3273