Re: xprompt/xecho without a full XFree86 or X11, ... sought

Ralf Hauser wrote: Any thoughts? Do a tcl/tk script or a perl/Tk script. Once ksh93 is a package, there is also a tksh. -- Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/d

xprompt/xecho without a full XFree86 or X11, ... sought

Hi, About 10 years ago, there was a nice little command 'xprompt' that allowed me to get a string into a script without having the user work on a console/terminal window. << #!/bin/bash ANSWER=`xprompt "how old are you?"` xecho The answer is \"$ANSWER\" ! >> win-ssh-askpass.exe does such prompti