dialog: A utility for creating TTY dialog boxes1

Dialog is a utility that allows you to show dialog boxes (containing questions or messages) in TTY (text mode) interfaces from shell scripts.

Dialog is initally written by Savio Lam and various branches do exist (e.g. "lxdialog" which is used for a linux kernel "make menuconfig"). This is the branch maintained by Thomas Dickey.

... part of T2, get it here

URL: https://invisible-island.net/dialog/
URL: https://hightek.org/dialog/

Author: Thomas Dickey <dickey [at] herndon4 [dot] his [dot] com>
Author: Savio Lam <lam836 [at] cs [dot] cuhk [dot] hk>
Maintainer: Rene Rebe <rene [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 1.3-20250817

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).
Remark: Dietlibc compatible.

Download: https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/dialog/ dialog-1.3-20250817.tgz

T2 source: dialog.cache
T2 source: dialog.desc

Build time (on reference hardware): 5% (relative to binutils)2

Installed size (on reference hardware): 1.08 MB, 103 files

Dependencies (build time detected): bash binutils coreutils diffutils findutils gawk gettext grep gzip linux-header make ncurses sed tar

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

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2) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).

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