NGLINE(1)

     NAME
          ngline - read a line from stdin without file name expansion

     SYNOPSIS
          ngline -g

     DESCRIPTION
          The ngline utility reads a line from the standard input and
          looks for the shell meta characters `?' and `*'.  It inserts
          a `\' before each such character.  The modified line is then
          written to the standard output.

          The reason for this utility is to keep the shell scripts
          from doing meta-character expansion when prompting the user
          for input, thus allowing `?' to be used throughout ClearDDTS
          as the context-sensitive help character.

          The -g option tells ngline to forget about shell meta
          characters and to strip off the newline at the end of the
          line just read.