diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5068be8..772670b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@
 base.code-workspace
 /module.lib
 load/ucishellgiturl
-btpl.run
\ No newline at end of file
+/modules/scripting/btpl
+/modules/scripting/smenu
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/modules/scripting/btpl.lib b/modules/scripting/btpl.lib
index dda82a1..45a24e6 100755
--- a/modules/scripting/btpl.lib
+++ b/modules/scripting/btpl.lib
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ export BTPLDIR
 
 btpl_fetch () {
 # /opt/python/apps/bin/lastversion --assets --output /shell/base/modules/scripting/btpl.lib download bash-tpl
-wget -O "$BTPLDIR"/btpl.run https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TekWizely/bash-tpl/main/bash-tpl
-chmod +x "$BTPLDIR"/btpl.run
+wget -O "$BTPLDIR"/btpl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TekWizely/bash-tpl/main/bash-tpl
+chmod +x "$BTPLDIR"/btpl
 # sed -i 's/\bmain\b/btpl/g' /shell/base/modules/scripting/btpl.lib
 }
 
@@ -14,25 +14,15 @@ btpl () {
 local dir	
 if [[ $1 == "-d" ]]; then shift; dir=$1; shift; pushd $dir 1>/dev/null || return; fi 
   [[ ! $BTPLDIR ]] && echo unable to establish Bash Template directory && return 2
-  [[ ! -f $BTPLDIR/btpl.run ]] && btpl_fetch
+  [[ ! -f $BTPLDIR/btpl ]] && btpl_fetch
   for btpl in *.btpl; do
     [[ -f "$btpl" ]] || break
 	echo processing $btpl ...
-	# echo sudo $BTPLDIR/btpl.run --output-file $(basename $btpl .btpl)$([[ $1 ]] && echo .$1) $btpl
-	$BTPLDIR/btpl.run $btpl
-	source <($BTPLDIR/btpl.run $btpl) | sudo tee $(basename $btpl .btpl)$([[ $1 ]] && echo .$1) 
+	# echo sudo $BTPLDIR/btpl --output-file $(basename $btpl .btpl)$([[ $1 ]] && echo .$1) $btpl
+	$BTPLDIR/btpl $btpl
+	source <($BTPLDIR/btpl $btpl) | sudo tee $(basename $btpl .btpl)$([[ $1 ]] && echo .$1) 
   done
 if [[ $dir ]]; then popd 1>/dev/null || return; fi 
 }
 
 
-sDNS () {
-	output=$(basename $1 .dns)
-	cp $1 $output
-	cat $output
-	for host in $(sed -e 's/ /\n/g' $1 | sed -n 's/[Dd][Nn][Ss]://p'); do
-	echo $host: $(dip $host) 
-	sed -i 's/[Dd][Nn][Ss]:'$host'/'$(dip $host)'/g' $output
-	cat $output
-	done
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/modules/scripting/smenu.lib b/modules/scripting/smenu.lib
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c69d43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/scripting/smenu.lib
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+SMENUDIR=$(dirname $BASH_SOURCE)
+export SMENUDIR
+
+smenu_fetch () {
+local repo=https://github.com/p-gen/smenu.git
+if git clone $repo /tmp/smenu; then
+  pushd /tmp/smenu || return 1
+  if bash ./build.sh; then
+    mv smenu "$SMENUDIR"
+    chmod +x "$SMENUDIR/smenu"
+  else
+    echo Error attempting to build smenu from the repo
+    return 1
+  fi
+    rm -rf /tmp/smenu
+    popd || return 1
+else 
+  echo Error unable to fetch repo at https://github.com/p-gen/smenu.git
+  return 1
+fi
+}
+
+smenu () {
+ [[ ! $SMENUDIR ]] && echo unable to establish Bash Template directory && return 2
+ [[ ! -f "$SMENUDIR/smenu" ]] && smenu_fetch
+ if [[ -f "$SMENUDIR/smenu" ]]; then
+ [[ ! $@ ]] && set -- --help
+ $SMENUDIR/smenu "$@"
+else
+  echo unable to fetch/build smenu, see $BASH_SOURCE
+  return 1
+fi
+}
+
+confirm () {
+local res  
+prompt=${1:-Please confirm your choice:}
+res=$(
+       smenu -2 ^Y -1 ^N -3 ^C -s /^N -x cur 10 \
+              -m "${prompt}:"   \
+         <<< "YES NO CANCEL"
+     )
+
+case $res in
+  YES)
+  res=0   ;;
+  NO)
+  res=1   ;;
+  CANCEL)
+  res=2  ;;
+  *)
+  res=3  ;;
+esac
+return $res
+}
+
+smenu_test () {
+echo "testing smenu using a simple confirmation"  
+
+confirm "Choose or abort and see return value"
+echo $?  
+
+if confirm "Choose or abort and an if statement is evaluated"; then 
+echo "confirm returned 0/true (i.e. YES), proceed" 
+else 
+echo "confirm returned other than 0, i.e. false, do nothing"
+fi 
+}