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This is version 1.1 of Cmenu
Cmenu is a menuing system for perl scripts with a look and feel reminiscient of dialog - the command line utility
You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.
This release of perlDialog has been developed using Linux 2.2. It has been tested using these terminals
linux console linuxm xterm Wyse 60 using VT100 emulation (tic file supplied)
0. If you are not using Linux, read the source
There are a couple of tweaks you may need to do to get
some keys to respond correctly.
Look around line 475 in function menu_initialise,
Block 2 - methods 1,2 and 3
If you need methods 1 or 2, uncomment them and comment out 3
Sorry, I have nothing other than Linux here so do not know if
these methods are still necessary.
1. perl Makefile.PL
2. make
3. demo
4. make install (should be done under root)
Run 'demo'.
This runs the perl script 'demo'. Provided you run it in Cmenu's home directory it should be able to find Cmenu.pm without you having to install Cmenu with 'make install'
Detailed documentation can be found in the doc directory. Use
latex Cmenu.tex # needs TeX
xdvi Cmenu.dvi # needs XFree
dvips -f Cmenu.dvi|lpr # needs dvips
a browser to read the html dir (doc/html)
to process these files.
Use 'perldoc Cmenu' after installation to read the documentation included in the module itself for shorter function descriptions.
The following files have been included as extras
edit.txt a help file used by demo
help.txt a help file used by demo
cmenurc a sample configuration file for hacking the default
behaviour of Cmenu. It can reside in several places
/etc/Cmenu/.cmenurc System Wide
~/.cmenurc User defaults
./cmenurc Current deaults
Config files are checked in the above precedence
Read the file to see what it can do
vt100-wy.ti A tic file for the terminfo database. It is for
a Wyse 60 (or equivalent) emulating a VT100. Extra
function keys have been mapped to default strings
so that Home and Page keys work. It is not perfect;
the Delete key is mislabelled, some hacks of function
keys may be required - at least its a start :)
contrib/* these are a series of scripts and definitions which
create PostgreSQL databases and demonstrate Cmenu
in action with SQL commands. Needs a PostgreSQL perl
Module such as Pg or Postgres. Needs PostgreSQL as
well of course.
Andy Ferguson <andy@moil.demon.co.uk>