From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 19 23:22:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77451065672 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:22:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout020.mac.com (asmtpout020.mac.com [17.148.16.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A788FC08 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:22:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp020.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KGS003EP0WP1Z70@asmtp020.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <8D8F5660-B420-45D9-902E-13CEA49B53C9@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: Polytropon In-reply-to: <20090320001352.caa9cc9e.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:22:01 -0700 References: <20090320001352.caa9cc9e.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:22:02 -0000 On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Polytropon wrote: > I'm searching for something really strange, maybe some reader will > be able to tell me what I'm searching for. :-) > > For a special application, I need a programmable dialog library that > has... well, how to describe it... anyone know SIOS? Or at least TSO? > A bit like this. A kind of form-driven screen layout. [ ... ] > The whole library should be accessible via C, or at least for a > shell script. You know, a bit like Tcl/Tk, but in text mode. Consider looking at dialog(3), which rides on top of ncurses. There's also a CLI utility by the same name handy for shell-scripting purposes. Regards, -- -Chuck