Bruce Perens writes ("dialog and the boot floppies"): ... > "dialog-0.9a" is a hack on top of a hack on top of a hack. Really nasty. > 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.