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diff --git a/Tools/scripts/dialogwrapper/dialogwrapper.sh b/Tools/scripts/dialogwrapper/dialogwrapper.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# dialog wrapper script
+
+AWK="/usr/bin/awk"
+DIALOG="/usr/bin/dialog"
+ECHO="/bin/echo"
+SED="/usr/bin/sed"
+STTY="/bin/stty"
+
+# get terminal size
+size=$( ${STTY} size )
+visheight="${size%%[$IFS]*}"
+visheight=$(($visheight-3))
+listheight=$(($visheight-6))
+viswidth="${size#*[$IFS]}"
+viswidth=$(($viswidth-10))
+descwidth=$(($viswidth-22))
+
+# test for a minimum version of dialog(1)
+DIALOG_VER="0"
+DIALOG_MIN="1.1-20100428"
+dialogout=$( ${DIALOG} --print-version 2>&1 )
+if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+  DIALOG_VER=$( ${ECHO} "$dialogout" | ${SED} -e 's/^[^0-9]*//' )
+  # only newer versions of dialog have --item-help
+  HAS_ITEM_HELP="1"
+fi
+
+# escape the menu title
+TITLE=$( ${AWK} -v title="$2" \
+	'BEGIN { gsub(/'\''/, "'\''\\'\'\''", title); print title }' )
+
+cmdstr=""
+[ "${HAS_ITEM_HELP}" ] && cmdstr="--item-help"
+cmdstr="$cmdstr $1 '$2' $visheight $viswidth $listheight"
+shift 5
+
+menulist=$(
+  varlist=
+  _maxvarlen=0
+  while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+    var="$1"
+    [ ${#var} -gt $_maxvarlen ] && export _maxvarlen=${#var}
+    varlist="$varlist${varlist:+
+}$var"
+    # build hashed environment variables
+    export _${var}_desc="$2"
+    export _${var}_val="$3"
+    shift 3
+  done
+  ${ECHO} "$varlist" \
+  | ${AWK} -v hasitemhelp="${HAS_ITEM_HELP}" -v viswid="$viswidth" '
+  {
+    var  = $1
+    desc = ENVIRON["_" var "_desc"]
+    val  = ENVIRON["_" var "_val"]
+    descwid = viswid -(ENVIRON["_maxvarlen"] + 12)
+    extdesc = ""
+    if ( length(desc) > descwid ) {
+      extdesc = substr(desc, descwid)
+      gsub(/'\''/, "'\''\\'\'\''", extdesc)
+      desc = substr(desc, 1, descwid - 1) "+"
+    }
+    gsub(/'\''/, "'\''\\'\'\''", desc)
+    printf "'\''%s'\'' '\''%s'\'' '\''%s'\''", var, desc, val
+    if ( hasitemhelp ) printf " '\''%s'\''", extdesc
+    printf "\n"
+  } '
+)
+
+eval ${DIALOG} $cmdstr $menulist
+status="$?"
+echo
+exit $status
diff --git a/Tools/scripts/dialogwrapper/readme.txt b/Tools/scripts/dialogwrapper/readme.txt
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+Updated August 6, 2012
+
+Bug fix for use on FreeBSD 8.x supplied by Devin Teske.  Thanks!
+
+
+What is this?
+
+This is a sh/awk wrapper script to give the ports options setting screen
+more features:
+
+  Extended descriptions for FreeBSD 8.3+ and 9.0+.  Port maintainers can
+  make descriptions longer and more explanatory.
+
+  Auto-sizing of the option screen to fit the terminal window.  Wider or
+  taller windows can display more of the descriptions, or more options.
+  Windows smaller than 80x24 also work.
+
+  Older versions of dialog(1) had a bug in displaying descriptions that
+  are longer than the available space.  When an old version of dialog is
+  detected, descriptions are cut to the available space.  These earlier
+  versions of dialog did not support the --item-help feature used to
+  show extended descriptions, so only the trimmed description will be
+  shown.  Descriptions that have been trimmed will still end in a "+" to
+  indicate that part of it has been trimmed.
+
+
+
+Installation
+
+Download http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/dialogwrapper/dialogwrapper.sh
+to /usr/ports/Tools/scripts.
+
+Make it executable.
+
+Edit /etc/make.conf:
+
+  DIALOG="/usr/ports/Tools/scripts/dialogwrapper.sh"
+
+
+
+Testing long descriptions
+
+Open a terminal window and resize it, making it narrower than the
+default 80 columns.  Try 60 or 70 columns.
+
+su to root and run 'make config' for a port that uses long descriptions.
+For example:
+
+  # cd /usr/ports/audio/xmms2
+  # make config
+
+Descriptions that are too long to fit in the window are shown ending in
+a "+".  Scroll downward through the settings to see that the missing
+part of the description is shown at the bottom of the screen.
+
+
+
+Testing auto-sizing
+
+Open a terminal window and resize it, making it taller than the default
+24 lines.  print/ghostscript9 is a good example.
+
+  # cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript9
+  # make config
+
+
+
+Work remaining to be done
+
+Cleanup of the code and additional comments.
+
+Testing.
+
+The trimming algorithm should break the description on whitespace to
+improve readability.  fold(1) may be an easy way to do that.