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CTERM - lets you use curses in perl
JINX - a flat-file handler (uses CTERM)
# File Name: CTERM and JINX # File Size in BYTES: 7985 # Sender/Author/Poster: Henk PenningThe first lets you use curses in perl, the second is a flat-file handler (uses the first). The documentation file: ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/PERL/jinx.ps.gz is already somewhere in doc-tree. The stuff is quite old, but 'cterm' is mentioned in the faq and 'jinx' is mentioned in the free-databases faq, so it is still quit popular. #
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# File Name: humpf.Z # File Size in BYTES: 7985 # Sender/Author/Poster: "Jerry LeVan"# Subject: HUMPF - menu utility # Archived: Thu May 19 06:33:58 CDT 1994 # #Hierarchical Unlimited Menu Processing Facility :) #(pronounced "humpf"). #
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# File Name: addch.info # File Size in BYTES: 1231 # Sender/Author/Poster: tshiono@cv.sony.co.jp (Toru SHIONO) # Subject: Re: addch (curses) # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # How to do an addch() in curseperl #
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# File Name: deaf.pl.uu - uuencoded deaf.pl # File Size in BYTES: 48127 # Subject: user interface # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # The deaf.pl user interface #
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# File Name: getkey.pl # File Size in BYTES: 429 # Sender/Author/Poster: # Subject: # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # get a key using getc #
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Re: Interactive scripts (cbreak, flushing STDI
# File Name: keypress # File Size in BYTES: 13409 # Sender/Author/Poster: jstander@ml.csiro.au (Jeff Stander) # Subject: Re: Interactive scripts (cbreak, flushing STDI # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # I have had the same problem and wrote some interactive subs # to handle it. I'll attach them to this letter. I don't gurantee # anything here and do not consider myself a Perl "guru". # Let me know if they are of help and if they work. #
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Re: keyboard input without CR, CTRL-D problem..
# File Name: keystroke.check.with.CR # File Size in BYTES: 2899 # Sender/Author/Poster: rbaumann@richard.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Richard Baumann) # Subject: Re: keyboard input without CR, CTRL-D problem.. # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # it does other things before checking for keyboard input again. # What I had originally wanted to do was detect any keystroke as soon as it was # made, without the user having to press the enter key. But my experiments with #
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# File Name: single.char.get # File Size in BYTES: 1838 # Sender/Author/Poster: tshiono@cv.sony.co.jp (Toru SHIONO) # Subject: Re: One Character # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # In article# gbrekke@MR.Net (Gregg D. Brekke) writes: # :How do you grab just _ONE_ character from STDIN without a carriage return? # :I'm converting a bunch of utilities I wrote in C and would like to make # :them independent of outside routines. #
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SoftList 3.0b7 - Perl Shell and simple list manager
# File Name: softlist.3.0.announce # File Size in BYTES: 2173 # Sender/Author/Poster: dls@netcom.com (Daniel L Smith) # Subject: SoftList 3.0b7 - Perl Shell and simple list manager # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # SoftList 3.0 is two things: # * simple list manager - devise lists on the fly, add records and # do searches on them later. Dynamic referencing allows you to # execute a command that a record refers to (in a site independent # way). As a example, a list of different cat breeds may contain # a record on Russian Blue, and that record may refer to a gif #
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# File Name: whatmenu.shar.Z # File Size in BYTES: 21890 # Archived: Apr 29 02:16 1994 # # Another menu utility # Compressed binary file #
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another curses-style cursor control for ANSI screens
# File Name: cur.pl # File Size in BYTES: 4006 # Sender/Author/Poster: vic spicer # Subject: ANSI routines for menus on dos # Archived: Apr 27 1993 # # this code should work on any VT-100 or similar terminal for UNIX boxes, or # with ANSI.SYS loaded on MSDOS. #
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curseperl scripts and info - menu.pl, and forms.pl
# # Scripts, libraries and helps for using curseperl # including menu.pl, the nifty curseperl menu library # and forms, with the latest announcement # #
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menu utility and perl-byacc eg
# File Name: perl-byacc.info # File Size in BYTES: 18943 # Sender/Author/Poster: William Hails# Subject: menu utility and perl-byacc eg # Archived: Jul 29 1993 # # Although I first thought the idea was more than a bit OTT, after # playing with it for less than a day I'd come up with a (IMHO) # really neat menu system for perl, which I'm posting both as an # example of perl-byacc and as a useful utility in its own right. #
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win.pl: simple windows for ansi terms
# # Simple windows-like interface for ansi screens # #
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Re: Dynamically creating formats
# File Name: tagent # File Size in BYTES: 3905 # Sender/Author/Poster: Tom ChristiansenEndText=# Subject: Re: Dynamically creating formats # Archived: Oct 9 1993 # # tgent -- retrieve a termcap entry, formatted for # this window size, or the -w width if given # read from /etc/termcap, or -f file, or stdin if isn't_atty #
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