Re: dialog in SuSE 10.0

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Sterling Surveys Ltd wrote:

> It seems that the dialog routine does not work correctly in SuSE 10.0

what does
        dialog --version
say?

> The key presses in a menu dialog do not select the appropriate entry.
> Only by traversing up and down with the arrows are you able to select the 
> entry.
>
> Is this because of the change from ncurses 5.3 (SuSE 9.0 ) to 5.4 (SuSE 10.0)

no - it's more likely that you're seeing a bug (I seem to recall
some case where abbreviations did not work properly in the multibyte
case - don't recall what version that was).

However, looking at SuSE's rpm for dialog, I see other problems with
it (10.2's spec lists an obsolete email for me - by 6 years, lists
an incorrect license, does not distinguish between people who have 
edited the spec file versus the program itself, etc).

This is the second email that I've responded to this morning pointing
out defects in SuSE's packages...

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