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Old 07-24-2007
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Hi All,

I am not new to unix but just begin to realizing the power of unix shell programming..

i need to create a shell script that can provide a graphical interface to me to enter information.. and this script i ll run through telnet program remotly..
is this possible ...
plz guide me
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Old 07-24-2007
Creating a true GUI via a shell script is possible under certain conditions, but it is not something that a beginner should try. dtksh, a very extended version of ksh was created to allow a user to write GUI scripts. So the target system must support dtksh. While you can launch the script via telnet, the script is an x client and it will need the access to your x server and any other x client. But in my opinion, dtksh is vey hard to learn. dtksh is supplied with both HP-UX and Solaris.

dtksh is the only scripting language that I have personally used to create GUI's, but there are others. One is Tcl/Tk. Tcl is a scripting language and Tcl/Tk is the GUI version. I can't think of any others offhand.
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