Subject: xmessage on sunsite
From: [email-masked] (Andrew Tristan)
Date: 30 Jul 1993 10:07:12 -0400
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

I've uploaded the file xmessage.tar.z to sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming.
xmessage.tar.z contains the source for the xmessage command, it also
includes a binary for XFree 1.3.  It required only a simple
make.  Excerpts from the man page follow.
Andrew Tristan
[email-masked]
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XMESSAGE(1)              USER COMMANDS                XMESSAGE(1)

NAME
     xmessage - display a message or query in a  window  (X-based
     /bin/echo)

SYNOPSIS
     xmessage [ -buttons label1[:value1],label2[:value2],... ]  [
     options ] -file filename
     xmessage [ -buttons label1[:value1],label2[:value2],... ]  [
     options ] message ...

DESCRIPTION
     Xmessage displays a window containing  a  message  from  the
     command  line,  a  file, or standard input.  Along the lower
     edge of the message is row of  buttons;  clicking  the  left
     mouse  button on any of these buttons will cause xmessage to
     exit.  Which button was pressed  is  returned  in  the  exit
     status  and,  optionally, by writing the label of the button
     to standard output.

     Xmessage is typically  used  by  shell  scripts  to  display
     information to the user or to ask the user to make a choice.

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright 1988,1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
     See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

AUTHORS
     Chris Peterson, MIT Project Athena
     Stephen Gildea, MIT X Consortium

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Andrew Tristan           He who fights with monsters should look to it
[email-masked]      that he himself does not become a monster. FN

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