From: Thomas Dickey <dickey AT saltmine DOT radix DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Linux compatible text dialogs?
Date: 21 Feb 2003 14:07:57 GMT
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Wolfgang v. Hansen <wvhansen AT fom DOT fgan DOT de> wrote:
> Hi,

> how does one create "graphical" text interfaces that can easily be ported
> to/from Linux? I think that I want something like a combination of the
> curses and dialog libs. Looking through DJGPP's package lists I found
> dlg09 which says it needs ncurses and pdcur24 that only seems to be
> curses. Will this combination work or are there better alternatives?

maybe - pdcurses doesn't have the terminfo functions which may be used
in dialog.  I have a to-do to test dialog with the X port of pdcurses.

that's for dialog's library only - djgpp's shell support is probably too
weak to port the shell-script application using pdcurses.

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