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From: tensmekl@infonode.ingr.com (Kermit Tensmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.text,comp.sw.components,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: data entry forms, preliminary follow-up
Keywords: forms, table, data entry
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.132215.25864@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 13:22:15 GMT
References: <23968@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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In article <23968@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> probst@iiic.ethz.ch (Urs Probst) writes:
>A few hours ago, I wrote:
>
>>I am looking for a PD curses-based forms data entry package with
>>field validation, lookup, cursor-movement, editing, etc.
>>We have dbm.  We have awk, perl.  Where is a general-purpose entry system?
>
>Hours after my request, I received a couple of good pointers.  Ain't usenet
>somethin?
>
>
>
>jinx is a system which apparantly does what I want:
>


	There is a standard forms package that is is available on "most"
	ATT Unix based systems called <fmli>. Documentation is supposedly
	available but I've never seen it. The forms work well on glass tty's,
	vt100 and variants as well as more advanced terminal emulations.
	It seems to use the curses soft keys and pads.

	Also for Christmas I recieved a book that might be of some interest.

	"Using C with CURSES, LEX and YACC"
	 "Building a Window Shell for Unix System V"

	by Axel T. Schreiner    	Prentice Hall
				ISBN 0-13-932864-5

	It's a translation from German and I've used it more as a good
	reference and sugestions for curses use.


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