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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO
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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:22:01 -0700, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
> 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.

Allthough dialog does come with the basic means I did describe,
it looks a bit... bulky? I don't want to sound impolite, but
consider the width of

	      +------------+
	Name: |            |
	      +------------+

to

	Name: ____________

which would be more... elegant. But "man dialog" is very interesting.
It even offers functionalities (lists, yes/no buttons etc.) that
I haven't thought of.

Thank you, I'll take this into mind.



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