istvan@hhb.UUCP (Istvan Mohos) (02/28/90)
However much you may despise scribbling redundant and purposeless
responses into little boxes on pre-printed official forms...
on the rare occasion when this is unavoidable you will grit your
teeth, grab a ball point pen, and put the gestalt behind you.
Still, should you have to face the same form time and time again
(colored perhaps in a nice, mottled pink --- it can happen!)
call UNIFORM to your "emotional rescue".
Complete the form one last time with your computer and printer, and
let UNIFORM remember every move you made: what went into which box,
where the boxes are, linefeeds, and the spacing between fields.
UNIFORM will *learn* your form and will then be able to reprint it
on demand. Naturally, you can specify arbitrary boxes to contain
string variables, and supply current strings at reprint time. But
don't throw away your ball point just yet! You must still sign the
form by hand.
Although UNIFORM is a fullblooded, "curses"-guzzling, Unix native,
it can jolt a Unix mindset, being darn right contrary to ideas of
...
Source (part 1) and man pages (part 2) posted today to alt.sources
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Istvan Mohos
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