If I understand you right, you want a mouse driven menu selection of wildcard files that displays the contents in echo on your telnet client.

TWX is not the scripting language to use for this. REXX very well might be, however I have not written in REXX for 4 years or so and don't remember much about it - wasn't very good then and was self-taught.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

i practically handed you 90% of the solution in about 5 minutes' effort. you're a smart puppy... write your own code.

Well, hold right there... I still have no clue what you actually want done. You're not really making a whole lot in the sense department at the moment, I'm afraid to say. We're just trying to help here, you don't need to get snippy and call it all "hype" (which isn't really an accurate use of the word, FYI).

You don't want a text echo'd to the screen. If that was it you'd have your answer by now (we've had 2 or 3 people here already do that). You want some kind of generic file naming scheme with wildcards and a graphical something... which doesn't fit into that context... atleast in no way that I can think of.

Perhaps you could explain it a bit better so maybe someone could actually help you?

If you want any kind of graphical front end then twx proxy is not the language for you. It's functional, not graphical.

what i want is very plain, some people are just thinking to hard on this. so here goes.

1- script must echo only to the screen.
2- script must either be mouse run like when u go to start a script in twx, click the ball by the clock, clik the folder type, ( combat, farming,tradeing,thief), clik the specific script i want. all this comes up in dialog boxes.

or
2- script when run echos to the screen the files in the twars txt folder in a menu selection style useing single letter input to determine the script i want echoed to the screen

a- would tell the script that i want the text in the planets folder.
7- would tell the script i want the Tavern planets data echoed to the screen

a) Planets
1)class m
2)class o
3)class h
4) Warehouse
5)Druid
6)Zentopica
7)Tavern
etc.etc.

b) Ports
1) classes

c) Ships
1) defensive
   a) guardians
   b) corprate
   c) imperial
2) offensive
a) sub-cruisers
b) cruisers
c) destroyers
d) battleships
e) carriers
3) transports
a) sub-light
b) trans-warp
4) special
a) Tiger Class Destroyers
b) Caprican Class BattleStars
c) Imperial DeathStars
d) Non Commishioned
e) Commishioned Only
5) alien
a) Klingon Battle Cruisers
b) Borg Spheres

it is also important that the ability to increase the number of folders and txt files in these folders not be restricted.

and lastly that the sript stays active in the background(systemScript), till closed when a double zz is sent.
and to reopen (not restart), the scrip a ! can be sent or another command as you can work out.

I hope this is clear enough?

Okay Zen. Sorry I'm not able to help you out on this idea.  I will make my Script Loader and make it public when it's done.. then maybe it'll closely resemble what you wanted...
GL