Re: need a little help with dialog

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: address@hidden
| To: "Thomas Dickey" <address@hidden>
| Cc: address@hidden
| Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2015 5:35:26 PM
| Subject: Re: need a little help with dialog
| 
| 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

offhand, I don't know (sorry) 

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