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05-03-2010

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Create a multi user input form

Hi All,

Please ignore if terminology used is incorrect as I am new to Unix.

I want to create a Multi user input form which looks something like this:

ABCD TOOL

Logged User: abcd12 Current Directory: /dir1/dir2

Input1: ___________ Input2 : ________________

Input3: ___________

Confirm : Yes/No

I have divided the above form in 3 components:

1. Header: which will display needed information
2. Input: The input given by the user
3. Confirm : this will be a dropdown and will display Yes/No to allow the user to select one.

User should be able to go back/forward (to modify it) from one field to another.

When users selects Yes on confirm, I want to read all the input values.

I searched for some helpful commands and find a few like:
read;

dialog --form;

Now the problem is <read> will pause the execution until the first input is provided which I don't want.

<dialog> I cannot execute this command on my unix server as it says : dialog: command not found.

P.S.

I am trying to execute on a remote server. The Unix kernel has following version details:
SunOS 5.8

Some help would be highly appreciable.

vidhu0007

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