Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!ihlpf!bird
From: bird@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Appleworks 3.0
Message-ID: <8821@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Jun 89 13:12:10 GMT
References: <8906200758.aa01720@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
Lines: 34

From article <8906200758.aa01720@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, by STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein):
> 
>   A2-Central, by the way, includes an offer from Claris for subscribers
> to obtain Appleworks 3.0 for $99.
> 
It further stated that upgrades for registered owners and those
that can "find" their original disks can upgrade for $79. This
means that already owning Appleworks is worth only $20. (??)

I read the article to say that Beagle had been asked to help/do the
upgrade and in doing so many of the Timeout enhancements have been
built in. Given this is so it seems very reasonable that Beagle put
in tons of hooks for future Timeout enhancements while they were in
the neighborhood. Thus, it seems to be in all of us Appleworks
users best interests to feed back all of the goodies we have wanted
to see in Appleworks through the years. Note that Mark Munz who
posts to the net on a regular basis is a Beagle employee so
feedback will be automatic. For starters, here is one of mine for
the spreadsheet:

Forward references are a fact of life in any reasonably sized
spreadsheet. The problem with them is that unless the correct
number of recalculations are performed you have incorrect results
in parts of the SS. One answer to this problem is to have a SS mode
whereby it will automatically do recalculations until no cell in the
entire SS exhibits a change. Naturally, you need an escape
mechanism to handle circular references since they by their very
nature would cause infinite looping.

(It will be interesting to see if Mark posts an Ultramacro macro
that will perform this function in todays Appleworks.)
-- 
				Joe Walters att!ihlpf!bird   
				IHP 1F-240 (312) 713-5356