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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Adduser program in C 
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Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 20:40:09 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> The dialog library is a bogus layer for abstracting this type of thing.
> 
> You want a command line tool that can be used by a generic UI using
> a dialog library or a GUI making Motif calls, etc., to avoid code
> duplication.

Sure, but for now I'd be happy to see a more functional adduser
replacement - so far, none of the efforts which have set out
to do this have born any fruit. :(

					Jordan