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    From Charles Pierson@1:106/127 to All on Wed Jan 27 15:50:34 2021
    I'm using Termux on my phone to work like a Linux machine with Ubuntu i stalled. It's running from tge command line of course.

    So I'm looking for something similar to the Old Automenu orogram I used to
    used with DOS. a progra, I ccan run with a list of my installed programs
    which I can launch from there instead of remembering a bunch of directoru changes and the like.

    Any advice?

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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Charles Pierson on Wed Jan 27 22:54:06 2021
    Hi Charles,

    On 2021-01-27 15:50:35, you wrote to All:

    I'm using Termux on my phone to work like a Linux machine with Ubuntu
    i stalled. It's running from tge command line of course.

    So I'm looking for something similar to the Old Automenu orogram I used to used with DOS. a progra, I ccan run with a list of my installed programs which I can launch from there instead of remembering a bunch of directoru changes and the like.

    Any advice?

    I'm not sure what Automenu does. But maybe Midnight Commander (command: mc) will do the trick for you. You can program it's menu to do anything you want on the command line.


    Bye, Wilfred.

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  • From Charles Pierson@1:106/127 to Wilfred van Velzen on Wed Jan 27 16:32:14 2021
    On 27 Jan 2021, Wilfred van Velzen said the following...
    I'm not sure what Automenu does. But maybe Midnight Commander (command: mc) will do the trick for you. You can program it's menu to do anything you want on
    the command line.

    Automenu basically was a program you coukd run that you set up with whichever programs you wanted, and would do small batch programs to launch your selection then returned to the menu when you exited.

    I'm playing with Midnight Commander now, it reminds me of Norton Commander I used in DOS. It might work, but it's a little more complicated than what I
    was looking for.

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    * Origin: theoasisbbs.ddns.net:1357 (1:106/127)
  • From Andre Robitaille@1:154/70 to Charles Pierson on Wed Jan 27 17:07:30 2021
    On 27 Jan 2021, Charles Pierson said the following...

    Automenu basically was a program you coukd run that you set up with whichever programs you wanted, and would do small batch programs to launch your selection then returned to the menu when you exited.

    It was almost like a front-end BBS menu. Was in ANSI and you could easily customize the colors, but that was about it. Midnight Commander is more like
    a DOS file browser.


    - Andre

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Runaan BBS (1:154/70)
  • From Charles Pierson@1:106/127 to Andre Robitaille on Wed Jan 27 17:13:58 2021
    On 27 Jan 2021, Andre Robitaille said the following...
    It was almost like a front-end BBS menu. Was in ANSI and you could easily customize the colors, but that was about it. Midnight Commander is more like a DOS file browser.


    Nice Description.

    I saw something about a program called pdmenu that sounds similar to what I'm looking for. I'm going to check out.

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  • From Joe Phigan@1:305/3 to Charles Pierson on Wed Jan 27 21:24:24 2021
    On 27 Jan 2021, Charles Pierson said the following...
    So I'm looking for something similar to the Old Automenu orogram I used
    to used with DOS. a progra, I ccan run with a list of my installed programs which I can launch from there instead of remembering a bunch of

    There's an app in F-Droid called Script Manager. Probably in Play Store too. Does that look like it would do it?

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  • From Charles Pierson@1:106/127 to Joe Phigan on Wed Jan 27 23:14:00 2021
    On 27 Jan 2021, Joe Phigan said the following...
    There's an app in F-Droid called Script Manager. Probably in Play Store too. Does that look like it would do it?

    I'm actually doing this inside of Termux. I'm operating the Termux sessions
    as a computer of it's own.

    This BBS is running in it.

    pdmenu looks like it will accomplish what I'm looking for.

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    * Origin: theoasisbbs.ddns.net:1357 (1:106/127)
  • From Andre Robitaille@1:154/70 to Charles Pierson on Thu Jan 28 04:32:24 2021
    On 27 Jan 2021, Charles Pierson said the following...

    Nice Description.

    I remember it well. It was installed for me by the person who my dad asked to setup my first DOS computer. I had computers before it, but that was the turning point for me, and automenu was the first thing I ever "customized" on
    a computer.


    - Andre

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Runaan BBS (1:154/70)