CompuServe Thread

F-Genie in Reverse?

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#67059From: Christopher TolmieAug 24, 1992 12:21 PM
Philip, Any chance of a Function Genie to reverse engineer an existing document layout? I'd like to see one if that's possible. chris
#67230From: [F] ArnoAug 25, 1992 3:38 PM
Chris, Although arexx can be a powerfull program, it would be very difficult to have a genie reconstruct a page or document to take it down a version or two…it would also be agonizingly slow. I don't know if Arexx could handle the difference in some of the coding (or how PPage handles certain routines). Philip Laitar Supervisor
#67280From: Christopher TolmieAug 25, 1992 9:06 PM
Philip, I don't know what you mean by, "to take it down a version or two…" I just wanted to have a Function Genie look over the page layout, gather that information and write a Page Genie. Just take the box positions and other information to make the page up. Not the text, or graphics contained within. I just thought that there are probably many templates already made up, but not similar page genies, and if a function genie could be written to examine these 'templates' and write the page genie there would possibly be more genies created by users and uploaded to BBS systems around the country or submitted to GD. Whatcha think? Chris