linux menu?

[Tyler Littlefield]

ok, I have done apt-cache search curses, and not found anything.. I think 
something is wrong with my aptitude, because I couldn't also find 
tofrodos.and I did apt-get update, and still nothing... any ideas?
Thanks,
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From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: linux menu?


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> If you want a really simple type menu, see the select command within the
> bash documentation.  This would yield a "BBS style" prompt.  Also like
> was said below, the dialog command or dialog "set of commands" is quite
> good and is also used in shell scripts.  I know for sure that
> Slackware's setup procedure and packagment is all done with dialog and
> doesn't look half bad.  I'm also looking at Curses::UI for perl so my
> perl scripts can take on a prettier look:).
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 08:47:09AM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
>> I have a menu for linux text mode. I will make sure of the procedure to
>> release it as it was done in work time for my job.
>> It requires tcl to be installed.  You can also look at the dialog 
>> package.
>> Under debian:
>> apt-get install dialog
>> HTH
>> Willem
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>>
>> > Hay,
>> > I am looking for a library that will enable me to create a menu in 
>> > linux.
>> > Anyone know where this is?
>> > Thanks,
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