Best method for a menu in a command line program?

[Ned Deily]

In article <87wrotfhj2.fsf at benfinney.id.au>,
 Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> brf256 at gmail.com writes:
> > Thanks again, 
> > Braden Faulkner
> >
> > Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network.
> > Envoyé sans fil par mon terminal mobile BlackBerry sur le réseau de Bell.
> 
> Please show your thanks by *not* spamming the forum with each message;
> compose your messages from a mail client that doesn't feel the need to
> blather about itself in the message body.
> 
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> Ben Finney

If I were a rude person, I might observe that "spamming" is relative: 
some who obsess about "spam" might consider 2 lines less of an evil than 
5 lines.

But I'm not, so I won't.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org