Subject: dialog and the boot floppies

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 96 22:21 PDT

I linked electric fence into "dialog" and fixed the first 6 or 7
segmentation faults I saw, made it abort if it failed to allocate a
window rather than just segmentation faulting, and hacked the auto-size
routine to not return a too-big window.

"dialog-0.9a" is a hack on top of a hack on top of a hack. Really nasty.
We need something better.

	Thanks

	Bruce

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 96 02:30 BST

Bruce Perens writes ("dialog and the boot floppies"):
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> We need something better.

You have my profound sympathy.

Does anyone here have time to write a simple `dialog' clone ?

When we have a volunteer I'd like to talk to them about some things
I'd like them to do so that 1.2 can have transcript logging of dpkg
and package script actions.

Ian.