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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!vtc.tacom.army.mil!agis!news2.net99.net!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca!ccshst01.cs.uoguelph.ca!bbarber From: bbarber@uoguelph.ca (DYE JOB) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Shell Menu, and other questions... Date: 12 Sep 1995 21:27:59 GMT Organization: University of Guelph Lines: 26 Message-ID: <434u0v$4mj@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> References: <DE2Eo0.DG4@boi.hp.com> <DEqAty.7J8@boi.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ccshst01.cs.uoguelph.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] The Green Dragon (dragon@boi.hp.com) wrote: : The Green Dragon (dragon@boi.hp.com) wrote: : > I'm looking for a nice shell menu that I can setup for users who telnet into : > my host machine. Something I can set up so they can change their password, : > read mail, edit files, ... : [stuff deleted] : Never mind, I found several, but couldn't get a single one to compile : on BSDi. So we dumped BSDi and went for a more supported OS. hmmm. Really, a shell script should do the trick. It has nothing to do with your OS. Learn to use "case" in your (bash) shell scripts. ie: read answer case $answer in p) passwd;; l) lynx;; e) echo "enter a filename: "; read namofile; vi $nameofile;; ... Honestly, in one day you can build an entire front end to LaTeX and text processing! -Blaine