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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Adduser program in C
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 19:04:15 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <9192.832980053@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 24, 96 04:20:53 pm
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> > I would like to heavily modify an adduser program, however the 
> > distribution one in FreeBSD is in Perl.  I don't do Perl.  I would like 
> > to write one in C but was wondering if anyone has done this before?
> 
> C is fine too..  Look at the dialog(3) library for a semi-reasonable
> way of making requests of the user.

The dialog library is a bogus layer for abstracting this type of thing.

You want a command line tool that can be used by a generic UI using
a dialog library or a GUI making Motif calls, etc., to avoid code
duplication.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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