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From: angelini@irisa.irisa.fr (Pierre Antoine Angelini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Does ANYONE know of a network aware graphics package?
Summary: Looking for a drawing package too !!
Message-ID: <1335@irisa.irisa.fr>
Date: 28 Jun 89 07:54:38 GMT
References: <1974@aucs.UUCP>
Organization: IRISA, Rennes (Fr)
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In article <1974@aucs.UUCP>, peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) writes:
> We've evaluated several different graphing and drawing packages for
> the PC and while we've come across some that are quite powerful, none
> seem to be able to be installed very cleanly on a network. We particularly
> find that all the Windows-based stuff is retched when it comes to network
> awareness (not to mention being slow and unreliable). But, I figure someone
> out there using a Novell network must have found a suitable network aware
> graphing and/or drawing package. Please, talk to me!
> 
> -- 
> Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
> Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
> UUCP: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Peter
> BITNET: Peter@Acadia  Internet: Peter%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU

I have been searching for that kind of package for weeks ,too and agree 
with your comments about Windows-based packages.
I red an article in Pc-Tech about CoPlot,CoDraw and CoStat (CoHort Software
P.O Box 1149, Berkeley, CA 94701)( Phone : (415) 524-9878). I received some
informations about those softwares and decided to buy CoPlot and CoDraw. 
I'm still waiting for them, so I can't tell you if they are what they claim
to be.
But:
They are low priced ($99 each or $259 for the whole package), run with or
without mouse, support CGA,EGA,VGA,MCGA,ATT6300 and Hercules screens and 
a lot of printers ,including HPGL plotters and PostScript printers, and
they don't need to run under Windows .... 

I hope this will help you.
Ps: I'm using a PC-NFS Lan (not a Novell Lan), but that should'nt be a problem 
for you.
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Pierre Antoine ANGELINI
IFSIC/IRISA
Campus de Beaulieu
Universite de Rennes I
Avenue General Leclerc
35042 RENNES CEDEX - FRANCE
Tel : 99.36.20.00
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