Re: dialog problem with --programbox

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 8 Aug 2013 at 14:05, Gary Cowell wrote:

Date sent:              Thu, 8 Aug 2013 14:05:35 +0100
Subject:                Fwd: dialog problem with --programbox
From:                   Gary Cowell <address@hidden>
To:                     address@hidden

> Hello
> 
> Hope this is the right list, it said on the dialog page to use the
> ncurses mail list so...
> 
> I'm using
> 
> $ ./dialog --version
> Version: 1.2-20130523
> 
> This problem exhibits on my builds on AIX 6.1, Linux RHEL 6 and
> Solaris SPARC 10
> 
> When using dialog for --programbox like this:
> 
> 
> ls | ./dialog --programbox 10 20
> 

On my fedora16 machine, I do get output, but it only showed the 
last part of what I expected.

This combination seems to give me what I think you are looking 
for. I have never used the programbox option/

ls >output
dialog --textbox output 10 20





> We don't get any output, the screen flashes really quickly, no OK
> button is displayed so the output is cleared immediately.
> 
> My understanding from the manpage is that this should display an OK
> prompt at program completion.
> 
> This is how prgbox works:
> 
> ./dialog --prgbox ls 10 20
> 
> This does display the OK prompt, but really I need the flexibility of
> feeding in piped output, hence my desire to use --programbox
> 
> Am I using it wrong? Or is there a bug?  The 'samples' don't work
> either (they do the same thing) - the samples scroll the programbox
> output, then quit without waiting for 'OK' to be chosen.
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
> Gary
> 
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