Dialog (software)
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Dialog (software)
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Dialog is an application used in shell scripts which displays text user interface widgets. It uses the curses or ncurses library. The latter provides users with the ability to use a mouse, e.g., in an xterm. Dialog was created by Savio Lam.
It was further modified by several people.
Since 1999 it has been maintained by Thomas Dickey. At least one fork exists,
a FreeBSD-only split into application and library in late 1994. One might also consider lxdialog, except that it has been reduced to fragm
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