This is the Debian prepackaged version of Savio Lam's dialog utility. This program enables the presentation of a variety of questions or display messages using dialog boxes from a shell script. This release is currently maintained by Thomas Dickey This Debian package was first created by Leland Lucius . The source for this release was obtained from: ftp://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog-1.0-20060221.tgz Copyright 1999-2006 Thomas E. Dickey This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL'.