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In article <4e0390fa$0$15663$4fafbaef@reader2.news.tin.it>,
superpollo  <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> wrote:
> blmblm@myrealbox.com ha scritto:
> > In article <4e01a0c9$0$15667$4fafbaef@reader2.news.tin.it>,
> > superpollo  <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> wrote:
> >> blmblm@myrealbox.com ha scritto:

[ snip ]

> >>> Probably typical ....  At my CPOE the support staff say they still
> >>> want one typewriter, since it's the best tool for one or a few
> >>> form-filling-out jobs.
> >> unless of course you substitute "one or a few" with "many" ...
> > 
> > Not very important, I guess, but -- huh?  I'm not understanding
> > your point.
> 
> suppose you had to fill several dozens of forms, or worse several 
> hundreds (happened recently at my workplace).
> 
> they give you a bunch of paper forms, then you have to fill them, with 
> data that is stored digitally somewhere, or that you have to firstly 
> store for later usage (maybe some more forms are on the way).
> 
> see?

*Oh* ....  All is clear now; thanks.  

I *think* -- though I could be wrong -- that the typical use case
for our support staff involves, hm, I'm not sure what the term is,
but the physical form is not a single sheet of paper but a stack
of sheets, such that writing/typing on the top sheet results in
the writing/typing being copied onto the other sheets as well.
If one needed to fill out many of these, then ....  It would
certainly be tempting to put a bit of work into doing something
that would allow you to get the information directly from some
digital source; it's just not clear to me how you could print onto
the multicopy forms, and if you couldn't, whether a substitute
would be acceptable.

In the long term -- and probably not so long, really -- the people
who are still using those multicopy forms will probably replace
them with something more compatible with the digital world.  In the
short term, one does what one can, I guess.

-- 
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer:  I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.

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    Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-08 21:59 -0600
      Re: bdiff Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-09 16:08 +1200
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              Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-09 13:19 -0600
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                Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-09 15:28 -0600
                Re: bdiff blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-06-09 12:33 -0700
                Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-09 15:15 -0600
                Re: bdiff pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2011-06-09 22:17 +0000
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                Re: bdiff blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-21 20:40 +0000
                Re: bdiff superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-06-22 09:59 +0200
                Re: bdiff blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-22 19:57 +0000
                Re: bdiff superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-06-23 21:16 +0200
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                Re: bdiff superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-06-24 22:48 +0200
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      Re: bdiff Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-09 07:13 -0400
        Re: bdiff Uno <Uno@example.invalid> - 2011-06-09 13:30 -0600
          Re: bdiff Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-06-09 13:29 -0700
            Re: bdiff Uno <merrilljensen@q.com> - 2011-06-09 21:11 -0700
              Re: bdiff "Morris Keesan" <mkeesan@post.harvard.edu> - 2011-06-09 23:58 -0400
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