Re: Informix Menus?

In article <3qu79f$q07@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> phr@fmsc.com.au "Peter Harris" writes: > I am looking for a way to put simple menus together to kick off batch > jobs and run reports. For security reasons it has to run from a character > terminal attached to the server. It has to be portable. For reasons of > aesthetics I do not want to use bourne shell scripts and to preserve my > sanity I do not want to use curses. > > Is informix Menus any good for this? Is there anything a little less - > ahem - informix dependent that will do this job? It is possible to make very sophisticated menus in a variey of ways - 'nawk', 'perl', 'ksh', 'sh', .... which can be driven from UNIX files so don't have to be altered every time there's a new option! I can send some 'nawk' (I think) fragments if you wish. -- ============================================================================ Sally Woolrich | This mail contains my personal sally@excelsis.demon.co.uk | views not those of my employer! ============================================================================