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.\" $NetBSD: menuc.1,v 1.4 1999/12/31 04:03:18 garbled Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 1997 Piermont Information Systems Inc.
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.\" Written by Philip A. Nelson for Piermont Information Systems Inc.
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.Dd September 26, 1997
.Os
.Dt MENUC 1
.Sh NAME
.Nm menuc
.Nd menu compiler
.Sh SYNOPSIS
menuc
.Op Fl o Ar name
.Ar file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This implements a curses based menu system. A source file that describes
menus, their options, and how to process the options is given to
.Nm
and produces both a .c and a .h file that implement the menu system.
The standard root name of the files is
.Pa menu_defs .
The
.Fl o Ar name
can be used to specify a different root name.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Bl -tag -width MENUDEF
.It Ev MENUDEF
Can be set to point to a different set of
definition files for
.Nm menuc .
The current location defaults to
.Pa /usr/share/misc .
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -item -width /usr/share/misc/menu_sys.def
.It
.Pa /usr/share/misc/menu_sys.def
.El
.Sh SOURCE DESCRIPTION
At the current time, this is not documented. You need to read the
source code.
.Sh BUGS
This manual page should be much longer.
.Sh AUTHOR
Philip A. Nelson for Piermont Information Systems Inc. Initial ideas
for this were developed and implemented in Pascal at the Leiden University,
Netherlands, in the summer of 1980.