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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.")
-
- 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
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-
- 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...
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