Using dialog with Perl

On 15 November 2007, I gave a micro-talk to the Atlanta Perl Mongers on using dialog with Perl. The talk is an overview of what dialog is and how to use it from a Perl script. It is hoped that the reader can use this tutorial in combination with the dialog usage text to create a simple text user interface without reading the man page. A handout for the talk is available for download in Acrobat (.pdf) format.

[Handout for "Using dialog with Perl" talk (78K)]

Revision history:

19 November 2007: changed variable names in the code to better follow the explanation; shortened code and added additional explanatory text

15 November 2007: original handout

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