tailboxbg

This version of dialog, formerly known as cdialog is based on the Debian package for dialog 0.9a (se

#!/bin/sh
# $Id: tailboxbg,v 1.5 2003/08/15 19:40:37 tom Exp $
: ${DIALOG=dialog}

tempfile=`tempfile 2>/dev/null` || tempfile=/tmp/test$$
trap "rm -f $tempfile" 0 1 2 5 15

./killall listing
./listing >listing.out &

$DIALOG --title "TAIL BOX" \
	--no-kill \
        --tailboxbg listing.out 24 70 2>$tempfile

# wait a while for the background process to run
sleep 10

# now kill it
kill -3 `cat $tempfile` 2>&1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

# ...and the process that is making the listing
./killall listing