jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor) (01/05/90)
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. :-). ------------- James B. O'Connor jim@tiamat.fsc.com Ahlstrom Filtration, Inc. 615/821-4022 x. 651 *** Altos users unite! mail to "info-altos-request@tiamat.fsc.com" ***