Re: need a little help with dialog

[kqt4at5v]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 12:43:45PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> > I would appreciate any help you could offer
> > I am trying to feed dialog with a fifo
> > I want to control dialog with a remote via lirc
> > Here is what I am trying
> >
> >  rm tmp/dialog_fifo; mkfifo tmp/dialog_fifo; exec 5<tmp/dialog_fifo;
> > dialog --trace tmp/dialog_trace --input-fd 5 --menu  "My List" 20 20 > 20 1 foo 
> > 2 bar 3 baz
>
> but a fifo is normally not a tty, so the terminal initialization in
> ncurses would fail.

so before i give up on this, is there any way to control a dialog session via 
lirc