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From: seb@erix.ericsson.se (Sebastian Strollo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Forms for curses...
Date: 08 Aug 1996 11:08:28 +0200
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In article <4ub2mb$eta@electra.saaf.se> gorhas@electra.saaf.se (G|ran Hasse) writes:
>
> On SysV there is a "forms" lib that works with curses. Is there a
> freware around that does the same thing (menues, fields etc) on
> curses.
> 
> Or have anybody made a C++ class out of curses that can do those
> things?

What about the libdialog? (The only documentation about I can find is
in /usr/src/gnu/lib/libdialog/) It can also be accessed from scripts
using the dialog(1) program. (btw, That is what is used by the FreeBSD
sysinstall program)

/Sebastian