[ANNOUNCE] tzdialog(8) -- tzsetup(8) translated from C to sh(1)

[Devin Teske]

Hi fellow hackers,

I'd like to share some work that I've been slaving over for the past 7 days.

I've converted tzsetup(8) from a C program that relies on dialog(3) into an sh(1) script that relies on either dialog(1) or Xdialog(1).

http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/tzdialog.txt

or

http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/

The advantages of this are two-fold:
	1. Bring tzsetup(8) to the GUI
	2. Bring tzsetup(8) to Linux

This new script, I'm calling tzdialog(8).

Major focal points were:
1. Speed (just as fast as tzsetup(8))
2. Conciseness (the code is conceptually clean)
3. Closeness to original code (you can find a large amount in-common between the C code and sh(1) code).

that is, in addition to the overall goals/reasons:

1. Act as a drop-in replacement for FreeBSD's tzsetup(8).
2. Provide a Graphical User Interface (GUI) via Xdialog(1) -- an X11-enabled drop-in replacement for dialog(1).
3. To bring tzsetup(8) to Linux (replacing tzselect(8)) and other systems that support dialog(1) and/or Xdialog(1).
4. Provide a single interface for both Linux and FreeBSD users without needing to ship two separate binaries.

I'm very happy with the results. Whether I'm using tzdialog(8) on a Linux box, FreeBSD box, on the console, or in the GUI (either locally or via X11 forwarding), it's just like I would expect tzsetup(8) to behave (with some added bonuses -- such as the added `-v' flag).

Please do let me know what you think.

I'm not proposing that we replace tzsetup(8) in the base with this, rather I'm just asking that a few people could try it out and let me know what you think.
-- 
Cheers,
Devin Teske


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