NAME Dpchrist::Term - terminal I/O routines DESCRIPTION This documentation describes module revision $Revision: 1.18 $. This is alpha test level software and may change or disappear at any time. SUBROUTINES dot() dot Prints a dot (period) at most once per second. Accepts/ consumes no arguments. Returns void. echo_system echo_system LIST Prints newline, dollar sign, space, LIST items seperated by spaces, and newline to STDOUT, and then passes through call to system(). prompt prompt EXPR,LIST Prints EXPR, and LIST in parenthesis, to STDOUT, and waits for user input on STDIN. Returns whatever the user input, or first LIST item if the user presses < Enter >. Returns first LIST item if process is not connected to a tty. EXPORT None by default. All of the subroutines may be imported by using the ':all' tag: use Dpchrist::Term qw( :all ); INSTALLATION Old school: $ perl Makefile.PL $ make $ make test $ make install Minimal: $ cpan Dpchrist::Term Complete: $ cpan Bundle::Dpchrist PREREQUISITES See Makefile.PL in the source distribution root directory. SEE ALSO "Perl Cookbook", 2 e., Recipe 15.2 AUTHOR David Paul Christensen dpchrist@holgerdanske.com COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2010 by David Paul Christensen dpchrist@holgerdanske.com This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.