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From: sjorr@rose.waterloo.edu (Stephen Orr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Maxiplan Plus 1.9 upgrades?
Summary: Yes there is such a thing
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Date: 11 Jul 89 04:33:12 GMT
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In article <1480@ndmath.UUCP> deh@ndmath.UUCP (David Hurtubise) writes:
>
>I read in Antic  that Maxiplan plus 1.9 has recently
>been upgraded and is now called PLAN/IT.  It is now
>distributed by B.E.S.T. instead of Oxxi.  Has anyone
>heard of an upgrade offer to existing Maxiplan Plus
>owners? 

Yes, B.E.S.T. is upgrading my mother's copy now. They asked for $50 
(American), the cover off the old manual and her original disks. They
claim to have fixed 'ALL' of the bugs in MaxiPlan and added a few new
enhancements. I recently had the opportunity to play with the new program
and way pleased with the results. Here are some improvements:

	1) DataView (C) (TM) to allow data base entries in a DBase format
	2) Print Preview
	3) Program now creates proper tools no matter where on a
	   hard drive wou install it!
	4) Better handling of automatic scientific notation (still
	   can't force it though!)
	5) Something called Gant (sp?) charts which look like schedualing
	   (path analysis) things.
	6) Font's on graphs through 'font cells' and the ability to add
	   text to a graph in any font, any where.
	7) Something called minimal re-calc where the program does a recalc
	   only on the cells which need it! (Read faster spreadsheets).
	8) Directly read or write Lotus(C)  Ver 2.0 spreadsheets from the
	   main menu.

There may be more, I'm not sure!


Note, I am in no way connected to B.E.S.T. whoever they are, but am hoping
to soon get a chance to play with the new upgrade, it looks like a good
step forward.

					- Stephen