> > some form of Oracle front end proforma forms for all the screens. > > The result is a horrible mish mash of ... and all sorts of other > > strange oddities I won't go into here. >=20 > Text field entry windows sized 3 lines by 30 characters or thereabouts? >=20 > Ah, the Oracle "sample forms." Or something. >=20 > BillW Could be, it rather reminds me of a program suite I came across a goo few y= ears ago that was supposed to do automated program generation for a small b= usiness machine. It had heaps of proforma code into which it plugged factor= s derived from what you entered on a screen when deciding what the code to = be generated was going to do. The result was a set of input screens and printout layouts that had obvious= ly been derived from a very standard set of code. --=20 Scanned by iCritical. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .