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From: jg13@umd5.umd.edu (Allon Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Systat: stats on the mac
Summary: from what I've seen, it sucks.
Keywords: statistics SYSTAT
Message-ID: <5464@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 89 18:20:07 GMT
References: <1746@naucse.UUCP> <1877@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: allon@solarvax.umd.edu (Allon Stern)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <1877@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> jbence@math.ucla.edu (James K. Bence) writes:
>I have a friend (a psych grad student) who owns a Mac Plus, with 1 MB
>RAM and a 30 MB external hard disk.  She has heard about a statistics
>package called SYSTAT, but really doesn't know anything about it other
>than the fact that it exists.

I've seen this program, and I'm not impressed.  It doesn't follow the 
standard MAC user interface, and doesn't do things that you really have
to be able to do with such a program.  For example, you cannot print out
the data.  Stupid, no?  My next door neighbor was using this program for 
a class, and she needed a printout of the data.  She called me over, and
the only way I could do it was to do screen dumps.  It can print graphs,
but not the actual data.

                              - -= Allon =- -

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