Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 19:04:15 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: lithium@cia-g.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adduser program in C Message-ID: <199605250204.TAA02417@phaeton.artisoft.com> 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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