Dialog --keep-window

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slackhead

I'm not sure if this is a bug in my system since my freebsd box died on me and now I'm using a VM.. but it seems that --keep-window doesn't actually keep the window. The screen clears instead.

Can anyone verify that this is so on a bare metal box?

This is the code that I'm using:

Code: 
dialog $DIALOGOPTS --exit-label "Back" --keep-window --timeout 1 \
        --title "\Zb\Z7[$TIME] $CHANNEL" --tailbox $STATUS $rows $cols  2> $TMP

At the timeout the screen clears.

I use the same exact same version of dialog on my slackware box and it works as expected.

It ought to be testable with a simple msgbox:

Code: 
dialog --keep-window --msgbox TEST 20 20

When enter is pushed the window should remain in the terminal.
 
Works here. Are you using a "helpful" shell that likes to clear results of commands after they have been run?
 
Well I'm using zsh, but the dialog script is in sh.

Probably something I need to look into regarding zsh then
 
Start sh(1) as an interactive shell and try it from that. That will eliminate things like a program in the shell prompt clearing the screen, or whatever default settings are in bash or less that like to remove whatever you were looking at after exiting the program.
 
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