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From: chris@zorin.UUCP (Chris Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: general purpose data entry prog. in C
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Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 02:18:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  8 02:18:25 1987
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Keywords: data entry, curses, office automation, utility
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Does anyone out there in C land know of, or, has written a general purpose, 
PD data entry program for entering data into ascii-databases?

I'm looking for a convient way to edit/enter /etc/passwd-like ascii files, 
phone lists/mailing lists/etc, posibly using curses, in C. These type of
files are great for quick things, using grep or awk, for searching &
formatting, but not too convienient for editing. Something like a 'tiny DBMS'.

It's the sort of thing I would write my self, but it seems like such a
usefull thing for those 'quick & dirty' office automation tasks, I thought
some of you may have done something like this already, or have some ideas.

Thanks for your interest!


Christopher A. Nielsen
Zorin Data Systems, Inc.         sdcrdcf!zorin!chris

P.S.  (sorry for any rule-breaking... this is my first posting)