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From: lamy@sobeco.com (Jean-Francois Lamy)
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Subject: form-filling/data-entry program generators?
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Date: 3 Jan 91 02:20:10 GMT
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Someone here is seeking a way to make the task of entering about 20 pages
of options and parameters for a suite of programs for actuarial analysis
better than typing all the numbers in an ASCII file.  The ability to provide
context-sensitive help and a "fill-in-the-form" approach would be ideal.

Short of going to a full-fledged user-interface generator, is there anything
in X land that could handle such form-filling activities?  Alternately,
are there X-based spreadsheets or constraint-solution languages (a la TK
Solve of yester years) that could handle such a task?

Please do reply by mail, as we tend to expire news quicker than I can read it,
I will summarize if anything shows up.

Jean-Francois Lamy        lamy@sobeco.com, uunet!sobeco!lamy
Sobeco, 505 ouest, bd Rene-Levesque, Montreal Canada H2Z 1Y7