Re: boot-floppies progress
>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com> writes:
Bruce> I just finished patching "newt" so that "whiptail" works as
Bruce> a complete replacement for "dialog", using s-lang instead
Bruce> of ncurses. I had to hack "modconf" slightly (because it
Bruce> used leading "-" in menus, and that won't parse), but it
Bruce> now works with "whiptail". We now have all of the
Bruce> boot-floppy components working with s-lang, but we have not
Bruce> yet assembled the floppy.
I'm extremely interested in this; does "whiptail" use a more decent
way of returning the data selected by the user than dialog did? I did
some work on re-writing the network config tool, but got lost in a
twisty maze of return values and stderr output.
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