As a matter of interest, I'd like to know if the 'dialog' program used by 
the Slackware installer

  DIALOG(1)                                                          DIALOG(1)

  NAME
	dialog - display dialog boxes from shell scripts

  SYNOPSIS
	dialog --clear
	dialog --create-rc file
	dialog --print-maxsize
	dialog common-options box-options

  DESCRIPTION
	Dialog is a program that will let you to present a variety of 
	questions or display messages using dialog boxes  from  a  shell  
	script.   These types  of  dialog boxes are implemented (though 
	not all are necessarily compiled into dialog)....

is generally available on most of the other distributions or not.  Please 
check and report back if your distro has this available.  

Thanks...


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