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Re: dialog alternatives



On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 20:03, John Hasler wrote:
> Sean Etc. writes:
> > So, back to my point (wow, I actually had one?), should there be an
> > alternatives for dialog, so we can at least simplify the scripts to
> > "launch xdialog when X11 is around, launch text dialog otherwise," and
> > leave the actual GUI implementation of the xdialog program up to the
> > sysadmin?
> 
> Is xdialog _fully_ dialog-compatible?  I had pppconfig set up to use
> gdialog when available for a while but I had to drop it because gdialog
> kept breaking.

Hmm, good point.  I haven't had a problem with xdialog or gdialog, but I
haven't used them extensively, either.

Perhaps bugs should be filed against them, for their lack of
compatibility, if indeed there are problems?

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> john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, WI
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