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From: jdc@naucse.UUCP (John Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Wanted: UNIX spreadsheet
Message-ID: <1706@naucse.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 89 17:34:44 GMT
References: <224@fe2o3.UUCP>
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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From article <224@fe2o3.UUCP>, by rusty@fe2o3.UUCP (Rusty Haddock):
: In article <5343@tank.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
:    >The best thing is that it comes with source. The worst thing is that it is
:    >NOT Lotus 1-2-3 compatible, neither in appearance, nor command set nor file
:    >structure.
: 
: And it doesn't draw pretty little color graphs either. 1/2 :-} 
: I may be wrong, but didn't James Gosling start on VC {\bf BEFORE}
: 1-2-3 became the success it is today?

Ah, but a few of us who have gnuplot laying around note that it *is* possible
to make little graphs jump out of SC.  Ripping off all the low level
drivers from gnuplot should make the task doable in *someone's* free time.
(My free time is < 0, otherwise I'd be working on it...)
-- 
	John Campbell               ...!arizona!naucse!jdc
                                    CAMPBELL@NAUVAX.bitnet
	unix?  Sure send me a dozen, all different colors.