RE: Display backslash-n in dialog?

[Moray Henderson]

> From: Thomas Dickey [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 19 September 2011 00:50
> 
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:39:42PM +0100, Moray Henderson 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:
> >
> >   dialog --msgbox "Hello\A world" 5 25 | xxd > 1
> >   dialog --msgbox "Hello\Z world" 5 25 | xxd > 2
> 
> I'll have a temporary snapshot for this tonight in
> 
>       ftp://invisible-island.net/temp
> 
> (am only about 2/3 through my backlog for dialog).

Great - thanks for that. 

By the way, have you ever encountered an interaction between the console
mouse server gpm(8) and dialog in a PuTTY window?  A couple of years ago I
posted a description on the CentOS Forum
(https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=1
9814&forum=37) but nobody could offer an explanation.  Should have posted
here instead :-)


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