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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: dialog sources?
Date: 18 Jan 1995 01:19:59 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3fd143$svk@illuminati.io.com>,
Mike R. Prevost <mprevost@io.com> wrote:
>Mike R. Prevost (mprevost@io.com) wrote:
>
>> Where can I find the source code for the "dialog" menu system?
>> I heard it was ported to *BSD
>
>Umm.  I mean the whole package.  The linux sources have several
>files, not just "dialog.c".  It's got check boxes and radio buttons
>and such.  I looked at dialog.c and it looks like just the menu
>part.  I assume it won't be hard to port if you have ncurses 1.8.5.

It's a standard part of FreeBSD now, though we broke dialog up into
a library and an application (so you could use it both from a shell
and from a C program).  Look for the libdialog and dialog sources in
/usr/src/gnu/lib/libdialog and /usr/src/usr.bin/dialog

					Jordan