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From: Peck@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA (Rodney)
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Subject: Filling in Forms and SMG
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Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 16:39:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 27 16:39:00 1987
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  And here's my question of the day:
   I'm writing a database type program which has to change data and the
users would like to see "forms" that they can fill in on the screen as
opposed to some sort of line by line typing thing.
   As I go thru the SMG routines in the programming support manual, I
see lots of warnings about smg$read_composed_line and smg$read_string
only working if the virtual display is pasted to the first column and
there is nothing to its right.
   Obviously, these aren't made to fill in forms..  What call should I
use?  I'm working with strings, reals, and integers from VAX Fortran and
writing an indexed file from the data. (That's not terribly useful to
you, but I'm trying to straighten my head out..)
  
   Any suggestions folks?