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To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>
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Subject: Re: what 'dialog' library is used with sysinstall and what not? 
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 23:49:59 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Basically, what is the text library used with sysinstall and the pkg_*
> utils?  I was under the impression it was 'dialog', but 'dialog' is rather
> restricted...

It's libdialog(3) (dialog(1) just uses it).

> file and other similar functions--I was thinking of putting it into a
> windowed interface like the other FreeBSD utils, but 'dialog' is greatly
> lacking some of the features seen in the above mentioned utils. 

Exactly.  See /usr/ports/devel/tvision for what I'm currently in the 
process of moving to. :-)

					Jordan