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--- Begin Message ---Hi. Received this from the debian BTS: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gabor Kiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:21:37 +0100 Subject: Bug#415596: "dialog --gauge" cannot display new prompt beginning with a number 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 [...]
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