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Re: Adding a script to make menu item work



On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:

> I maintain a package wich is console based and receives an url
> to download as argument (at least).
>
> I did not make an item for it on Debian menu because it's no
> good to add a default URL ;)
>
> I was wondering about creating a script that would be a wrapper
> that would be called in the default terminal emulator and would
> ask the user for a url, then for a directory where to download
> to and then call the program passing any arguments that are needed...
>
> Is it good policy? Should I add this script to debian/?

If you come up with somethink slightly general I'd be interested in it. I
(am trying to) maintain xxdiff a graphical diff programm which will only
start if it is passed two files as argument.

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