RE: Display backslash-n in dialog?

[Moray Henderson]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > There may be a bug then.  I have tested this up to dialog Version
> > 1.1-20100428 - Fedora 15 LiveCD booted to runlevel 3 with vim-common
> > installed to provide xxd(1).  I captured hex dumps from the output of
> 2
> > dialog commands:
> 
> perhaps - I'm reminded of a relatively recent bug-fix - though what I
> see
> in the changelog is for the case when --colors _is_ used.
> 
> >
> >  dialog --msgbox "Hello\A world" 5 25 | xxd > 1
> >  dialog --msgbox "Hello\Z world" 5 25 | xxd > 2
> 
> I'll add this to my to-do list, to see if I can reproduce it.

Thanks - it's good to see dialog still going strong!



Moray.
"To err is human; to purr, feline."