I find myself automating many UNIX processes for both coworkers and my girlfriend, who is new to OpenBSD. This leads me to write many simple console based programs that inevitably need some user interaction. After reviewing some of the code I had written, I found that I was creating menuing routines way too many times and created a small module to do it for me. Instructions are in the pod.
<!- if youre reading this it can be assumed that youre curious where the code snippet went. if you want it, /msg me. if youre upset that i removed it, well, there's a big story behind it and it has no business being on the monastery. which is why it is blank with no explanation. i refuse to even comment to why this was removed. let it be. ->

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