Looking for menu-based user interface
Jim O'Connor
jim at tiamat.fsc.com
Fri Jan 5 11:12:21 AEST 1990
Beginning later this spring we will have a mixed-vendor shop for the first
time. We will be running HP 9000 Model 800 machines, as well as various
80386/486 machines. The HP machines will run HP-UX Rel. 7.0 and the Intel
machines will run either SCO Xenix or SCO Unix. The majority of our users
will be using character terminals.
What I am looking for is:
- a user interface program that is either available in binary form
for both machines, or available in source form and written portably
enough that I should be able to get it running on both types of
machines
- I'm hoping for reasonable costs here (say <$500 for the Intel
machines and <$1500 for the HP's). If it's too expensive I'd be
better off writing my own and getting the exact features I want.
- the only feature I REALLY need is the ability to customize the
menu selections so that our internal applications can be run from the
menu. All features beyond this are icing on the cake.
- the package should be able to include MANY menus. We have a lot of
internal software and I'd like all the menu systems to look the same
- some type of access control would be nice too, so I can do centralized
configuration, but restrict people to only the menus they need.
Please e-mail me any suggestions you might have.
Note to devlopers: if you have a menu program that is Xenix or HP only, I
will be willing to help port to one or the other, or to make our
resources available to you to do the port. In return, I'll only
ask for an unlimited site license of the resulting binary. (If I
REALLY wanted to fool with source, I'd write my own. :-).
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James B. O'Connor jim at tiamat.fsc.com
Ahlstrom Filtration, Inc. 615/821-4022 x. 651
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