Maintaining "Notes" in an application

Folks --

My apologies in advance to those of you who see this on both the Easy400 and 
the Web400 lists.

A traditional green screen appication has Notes implemented using a database 
file and a fixed length text field, say 60 characters.  The notes are 
maintained sequentially for the relevant item (say an order) using a subfile 
program.  We are all probably familiar with such a program.

We would like to have a CGI program for adding notes and maintaining some of 
the other information.  However, I am in a quandary about how to structure the 
notes.  The green screen program need to be able to view the notes properly 
after they are added by the CGI program.
--> I could mimic the subfile, and have multiple text input fields.  I don't 
like this very much, because it goes against the normal web look and feel.
--> I could have a single text area, and figure out how to break it up into 60 
character chunks.  The breaks would need to be like a word-wrap to properly 
read on a green-screen.

Hopefully, this is a silly question and there is an easy solution.  Any 
thoughts/ideas/code samples would be appreciated!

Thanks!
Tom Jedrzejewicz
tjedrzejewicz@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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