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dialog 0.6c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Sep 16 15:10:02 1995
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 00:26:30 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Florian La Roche <florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de>
Subject: dialog 0.6c
Reply-To: florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de
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I have uploaded dialog-0.6c.tar.gz to sunsite. It should be moved
to pub/Linux/utils/shell, I think.
(It is also on susix.jura.uni-sb.de/pub/linux/source/libc/ncurses/.)
dialog is typically invoked from a shell script and puts nice
yes-no/checklist/radio-button - menues on your screen.
(Text is just passed on as arguments to dialog.)
Starting point for this new version was dialog-0.54 from the RedHat
people. I reformatted the source code to be better readable :-),
deleted some old code for old broken nurses-versions, moved code
around to give it a better structure (better modularisation),
made some small modifications (forgot which, but all were very minor).
One goal was to have a library, which can also be used from normal
C programs and maybe perl5 (any volunteer to show me how to do this?).
There are no new features and I also don't expect any compatibility
problems with shell scripts written for previous releases.
("No known problems/bugs.")
(Just mouse support is not really working, though some people told
me it is working for them without problems. - It's not for me, but
it's also not a problem for me :-)
Please use ncurses-1.9.4 or newer with this dialog release. It's really worth
it. (prep.ai.mit.edu or ftp.netcom.com/pub/zm/zmbenhal/ncurses.)
If you have problems compiling dialog, you might have to change the
source code to use '<ncurses.h>' instead of the now used '<curses.h>'.
Thanks a lot,
Florian La Roche florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de
P.S.: I am currently working on a C program for my install disk.
At the moment, most things just have to be recoded from perl
to C. (Mainly calls to put nice menues on the screen.)
If anybody wants to help me, I'd be more than thankful.
(Apart from the install-disk hassel, my elf-distribution seems to
complete and working now. Just look on susix.jura.uni-sb.de/pub/linux.)
Current source for the C prog is in the dialog-0.6c source code...
P.S.2.: I got also one email that pointed out that "gauge" was mis-spelled
in the whole package as "guage". I dunno if this is some good joke
by the RedHat people, or just a real spelling 'bug'. I'll leave this as
is for the moment and wait if there should be an extra message about this
in the documentation :-)
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