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From: Dan C on 25 Jan 2008 09:27 On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:13:39 -0800, exg001 wrote: > I'm new to Linux. We recently installed Red Hat Linux, but I want our > users connect to the server in a text-based way. I want a text-based > menu system (we have been using Unix, and users had a menu there). Is > there something in Linux that I can use? Yes. It's called 'bash'. -- "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".
From: Dan Espen on 25 Jan 2008 09:45 exg001(a)gmail.com writes: > I'm new to Linux. We recently installed Red Hat Linux, but I want our > users connect to the server in a text-based way. I want a text-based > menu system (we have been using Unix, and users had a menu there). Is > there something in Linux that I can use? Whatever system you were using on Unix, should work fine on Linux. If your old menu system was C based, it needs to be recompiled. If it was ksh based, install one of the ksh packages. Writing a menu system in bash or Perl is pretty simple.
From: Moe Trin on 25 Jan 2008 15:02 On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.redhat, in article <ed1ed050-6e5e-4827-a149-c94ae68ae4c6(a)s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, exg001(a)gmail.com wrote: NOTE: Posting from groups.google.com (or some web-forums) dramatically reduces the chance of your post being seen. Find a real news server. >I'm new to Linux. We recently installed Red Hat Linux, but I want our >users connect to the server in a text-based way. I want a text-based >menu system (we have been using Unix, and users had a menu there). Very ambiguous question. Are your users running some application on their client systems that (for example) would open an FTP, or NNTP session on the server? Or are they using some web-browser type of thing to connect to the remote server, and the displayed web page is some menu? I suspect you mean the latter, and that sounds like some PHP scripts running on the server. For that, you might have better luck looking at one of the comp.infosystems.www.* comp.infosystems.www.authoring.* or even comp.lang.php newsgroups. If this is a client side application, most likely a simple script would suffice, something along the concept of a DOS/windoze batch-file that have been around for a dozen or more years. >Is there something in Linux that I can use? Probably - but your question is to vague to be able to tell. Perhaps if you gave some details of what the menu system was that you were using on/with your unspecified type of UNIX. Old guy
From: Florian Diesch on 26 Jan 2008 14:38 exg001(a)gmail.com wrote: > I'm new to Linux. We recently installed Red Hat Linux, but I want our > users connect to the server in a text-based way. I want a text-based > menu system (we have been using Unix, and users had a menu there). Is > there something in Linux that I can use? ,----[ pdmenu ] | Package: pdmenu | | Description: simple full screen menu program | A full screen menu program, intended to be comfortable login | shell for inexperienced users | | Pdmenu interfaces with Debian's menu system, to provide | automatically-generated lists of installed programs `---- ,----[ dialog ] | Package: dialog | | Description: Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell | scripts | This application provides a method of displaying several | different types of dialog boxes from shell scripts. This | allows a developer of a script to interact with the user in | a much friendlier manner | | The following types of boxes are at your disposal: | yes/no Typical query style box with "Yes" and "No" | answer buttons menu A scrolling list of menu | choices with single entry selection input Query | style box with text entry field message Similar | to the yes/no box, but with only an "Ok" button text | A scrollable text box that works like a simple file viewer | info A message display that allows asynchronous | script execution checklist Similar to the menu box, | but allowing multiple selections radiolist Checklist | style box allowing single selections gauge Typical | "progress report" style box tail Allows viewing | the end of files (tail) that auto updates background tail | Similar to tail but runs in the background `---- ,----[ whiptail ] | Package: whiptail | | Description: Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell | scripts | Whiptail is a "dialog" replacement using newt instead of | ncurses. It provides a method of displaying several different | types of dialog boxes from shell scripts. This allows a | developer of a script to interact with the user in a much | friendlier manner `---- Florian -- <http://www.florian-diesch.de/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature, please! ** -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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