Using VPLUS: An Introduction to Forms Design (32209-90004)

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printing brackets. Within these brackets, a field tag names each field.
For example, ordate identifies the field into which a date is entered,
and name identifies the field into which the customer name is entered.
The other field tags are address, city, st, zip, and phone. These tags
never appear when the form is displayed. All the other text, which
consists of the title and the labels on the fields, will be displayed
exactly as it is typed on the screen during form layout.
Table 2-1. Defining the Fields for the ShipTo Form
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| Field | Tag | Line No. | Length |
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| Date | ordate | 5 | 18 |
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| Name | name | 10 | 42 |
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| Address | address | 11 | 42 |
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| City | city | 12 | 30 |
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| State | st | 12 | 2 |
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| Zip | zip | 13 | 10 |
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| Telephone | phone | 13 | 14 |
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Action
When the form is laid out to your satisfaction, press ENTER to record it
in the forms file.
The next step is to proceed to the Field Menu for the first field on this
form.