finalbeta@finalbeta-desktop:~/documents/Temp$ apt-cache show dialog Package: dialog Priority: optional Section: universe/misc Installed-Size: 1188 Maintainer: Santiago Vila Architecture: i386 Version: 1.0-20060221-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4-1), libncursesw5 (>= 5.4-5), debianutils (>= 1.6) Filename: pool/universe/d/dialog/dialog_1.0-20060221-1_i386.deb Size: 208340 MD5sum: cdc8b2c0fb5e7a762009bcc06b2184d8 SHA1: b04da48d09c5f4a3764bd4ef5627a5abeb9e739c SHA256: 4b0e9dede885529a558fcd07465e08e1b1b5828abb806c0533cae5e622343d88 Description: Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts This application provides a method of displaying several different types of dialog boxes from shell scripts. This allows a developer of a script to interact with the user in a much friendlier manner. . The following types of boxes are at your disposal: yes/no Typical query style box with "Yes" and "No" answer buttons menu A scrolling list of menu choices with single entry selection input Query style box with text entry field message Similar to the yes/no box, but with only an "Ok" button text A scrollable text box that works like a simple file viewer info A message display that allows asynchronous script execution checklist Similar to the menu box, but allowing multiple selections radiolist Checklist style box allowing single selections gauge Typical "progress report" style box tail Allows viewing the end of files (tail) that auto updates background tail Similar to tail but runs in the background. Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Origin: Ubuntu