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From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Human Interfaces to Database Systems
Message-ID: <1393@geac.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 15:57:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: geac.1393
Posted: Thu Sep 17 15:57:18 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 18:44:27 EDT
References: <1275@geac.UUCP> <120@glenlivet.hci.hw.ac.uk>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
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In article <120@glenlivet.hci.hw.ac.uk> gilbert@hci.hw.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton) writes:
>In article <1275@geac.UUCP> david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes) writes:
>>Minimal requirements would be:
>>	There is a clear division between the presentation and
>>	application interfaces.
>Sure you want this? Field validation by definition is
>application-dependent....

  There are two points being discussed here:
	1) forms-manager to back end interface
	2) seperation of form and content

  I'd be willing to bet David was talking about 2 (although I haven't
shouted over the wall to find out :-).  
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