Re: Slackware's dialog

Re:

On 11 Nov 2014, at 18:55, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Gil André wrote:
> 
>>> But, if you run the same command as a user, the colors break on the
>>> bottom and right sides of the box.
> 
>  Not true here.
> 
>> I have to say I have used dialog many many times, and I have never seen
>> the behaviour you are mentioning…
> 
>  Interesting. I thought those dialog boxes came from ncurses scripts;
> perhaps, they alao are.

If you are talking about the standard Slackware installation dialogs, they all come
from the dialog program.

And dialog itself is based on ncurses, of course.

The reason I am asking about terminals is that I have used dialog on other OS, such
as Open/NetBSD.

Since these two have got different terminal drivers, dialog can look very different
under, say, OpenBSD than under Slackware. If I remember correctly, OpenBSD does not
compile dialog with color support, for instance.

The same thing can be true if you are using a terminal that does not implement (or
has a buggy implementation) of ncurses. 

Again, I am not a specialist of these questions, so don’t take my word for it.