Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 23:49:59 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what 'dialog' library is used with sysinstall and what not? Message-ID: <14519.856943399@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Feb 1997 23:43:58 MST." <Pine.NEB.3.95.970225234128.2052A-100000@cold.org>
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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
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