At 18:37 12.04.2000 -0500, Jeff Dike you wrote
> This was the original Message:
>> Item1="0 \"Midnight Commander\" off "
>> Item2="1 \"Mouse support\" off "
>> Item3="2 \"Dos-Tools\" off "
>> Items=$Item1$Item2$Item3
>> whiptail --title "$Titel" --checklist "$Text" 15 40 10 "$Items"
>
>
> Item1="0 \"Midnight Commander\" off "
> Item2="1 \"Mouse support\" off "
> Item3="2 \"Dos-Tools\" off "
> Items=$Item1$Item2$Item3
> whiptail --title "$Titel" --checklist "$Text" 15 40 10 "$Items"
The quotes around "$Items" is forcing the $Item1$Item2$Item3 to be a single
argument, whereas
>> --checklist "$Text" 15 40 7 0 "Midnight Commander" off
>> ^ ^
>> | |
>> here must be Quotes !!
>
> Escape them...like this:
>
> Item1="0 \"Midnight Commander\"
