Package description for 'dialog'

A utility for creating TTY dialog boxes

 Dialog is a utility that allows you to show dialog boxes
 (containing questions or messages) in TTY (text mode) interfaces
 from shell scripts.

 Dialog is initally written by Savio Lam and various branches do exist
 (e.g. "lxdialog" which is used for a linux kernel "make menuconfig").
 This is the branch maintained by Thomas Dickey.

Various other information for package 'dialog'   (Repository 'base')

URL: https://invisible-island.net/dialog/
URL: https://hightek.org/dialog/

Author: Thomas Dickey <dickey@herndon4.his.com>
Author: Savio Lam <lam836@cs.cuhk.hk>
Maintainer: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 1.1-20080819

Download: ftp://invisible-island.net/dialog/ dialog-1.1-20080819.tgz

Buildtime: 3572 (5) seconds (on reference hardware)
Buildtime: 4475 (9) seconds (on reference hardware)
Package Size: 0.14 MB, 8 files

Dependencies: 00-dirtree bash2 binutils bzip2 coreutils cvm diffutils findutils
Dependencies: gawk gcc42 gcc42:dev glibc26 glibc26:dev grep linux26-headers:dev
Dependencies: ltrace make mktemp ncurses ncurses:dev net-tools patch sed sysfiles
Dependencies: tar twoftpd ucspi-unix util-linux xmame

ROCK Sources:  dialog.cache,  dialog.conf,  dialog.desc,  nice_scroll.patch