Package: dialog
Version: 1.0-20050306-1
Severity: normal
Manual writes:
If the standard input reads the string "XXX", then
subsequent lines up to another "XXX" are used
for a new prompt.
Meanwile source file guage.c (sic! :-) contains this:
if (isMarker(buf)) {
/*
* Historically, next line should be percentage, but one of the
* worse-written clones of 'dialog' assumes the number is missing.
* (Gresham's Law applied to software).
*/
status = read_data(buf, dialog_state.pipe_input);
if_FINISH(status, break);
if_RESIZE(status, goto retry);
prompt_buf[0] = '\0';
if (decode_percent(buf)) <<--- WHY ??? :-(
percent = atoi(buf);
else
strcpy(prompt_buf, buf);
....
So I cannot send a new prompt line "13200 files remaining" or so
because code interprets 13200 as percentage and messes up the
screen even if it is between "XXX" lines.
Version 1.0-20060221 also suffers from this problem.
Gabor
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages dialog depends on:
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncursesw5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
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