Phil Betts wrote on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:08 AM: > Markus Wenke wrote: >> In early versions of cygwin, I've used "dialog" for some scripts. >> Now I want to start the script and "dialog" is not installed on the >> current cygwin version. I tried to install it with Cygwin-setup, >> but I can't find a packet named "dialog". Which packet do I have to >> install for dialog? > > For this sort of question, you can either use the package search at > http://cygwin.com/packages/ or simply use cygcheck: > > $ cygcheck -p dialog.exe > Found 2 matches for dialog.exe. > tetex-bin/tetex-bin-2.0.2-15 The TeX text formatting system > (binaries). > tetex-bin/tetex-bin-3.0.0-3 The TeX text formatting system > (binaries). > > In this case however, tetex-bin does not contain dialog.exe but > tcdialog.exe. That file does seem to be dialog.exe by a different > name though, so you might want to add "alias dialog=tcdialog" to > ~/.bashrc > > This might be a packaging bug: typing "man tcdialog" brings up the > dialog(1) man page, which suggests that something is not quite right.
Cygwin Ports http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/ has dialog 1.1.20080316 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
