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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Human Interfaces to Database Systems
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Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 00:14:53 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 29 00:14:53 1987
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> Does anyone know of a product which provides forms/menuing
> facilities in a unix environment?
...
> Minimal requirements would be:
> 
> 	Source is available. (UNIX & C)
> 	The system works on most ASCII asynchronous terminals
> 	There is a clear division between the presentation and
> 	application interfaces.
> 	It is not tied to a particular (database) program.

Back when I was at Picture Elements Ltd (now defunct) I briefly used a forms
building package on a 4.1bsd VAX.  It was freeware (but the term was not in
use at the time) and only depended upon curses to work on text terminals.  We
had the source code for it.  It's been a long time, but if I remember
correctly, this package had a description language for building the forms and
for specifying the behavior of the fields, plus some rudimentary type/range
data checking.

I'm sorry to say I don't remember what it was called, but if any PEL alumni
are reading this, maybe one of you recalls its name and who wrote it, or where
it came from.

Mike Khaw
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