today's really stupid question

[dep]

okay.

as part of my renewed campaign to revive the console as a place where 
even newbies can do useful business -- and as a place with which 
*everyone* ought to be able to do useful business, in that xfree is 
just to fragile, especially with distributors dicking around with it 
-- my attention had been drawn to a nifty little app called pdmenu. 
(http://www.kitenet.net/programs/pdmenu/)

it's wonderfully dos-looking<g>. editing the menus is a little 
obscure, but no worse, say, than adding applications in gnustep used 
to be.

anyway, supposedly there's a way to configure it to act as a nice, 
console-based login manager, ala xdm/kdm/gdm without x. the 
documentation in this regard is limited to: "As a login shell. (Just 
change their shell, it works fine.)" which is dandy, except a.) i 
have no idea where their shell is called and b.) in that i'm already 
booting to a console login prompt, i have no reason to think that 
this would be called from there anyway. my *guess* is that calling it 
from rc.local would do the trick, but kurt remembers (or should) the 
*last* time i threw something into rc.local without *knowing* what i 
was doing.

consider all of the above to be a question.<g>

also, while i'm here -- does anyone know of anyone who still sells (it 
would have to be old stock) the corel suite, and if so, whether it 
includes sufficient wrappers to allow it to run on a modern linux?
-- 
dep

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