Re: Display backslash-n in dialog?

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 28 Jul 2011 at 9:26, Moray Henderson wrote:

From:                   Moray Henderson <address@hidden
software.org>
To:                     "'Thomas Dickey'" <address@hidden>
Subject:                RE: Display backslash-n in dialog?
Date sent:              Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:26:19 +0100
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> 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

Interestingly, I did a test with A thru Z and a thru z making files 
with the same name. All the files were 4007 bytes except for the Z 
and n files? So, it only seems to be those two combinations that 
effect it?

> > 
> > 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."
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