Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!uplherc!esunix!bambam!suns!blgardne From: blgardne@suns.es.com@bambam.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Spreadsheet info requested Message-ID: <2223@bambam.UUCP> Date: 5 Sep 90 14:26:25 GMT References: <6206@hub.ucsb.edu> Sender: news@bambam.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah Lines: 34 6600dan@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes: >Well, a friend of mine is the Author of Advantage, a spreadsheet >published by Gold Disk. It has just been released in its second >version. He says that HIS spreadsheet is the greatest spreadsheet for >the Amiga. Of course, he gets 15% of sales, so he has to say that. >It does have a nice list of features, and is reviewed (very briefly) >in the September issue of .info magazine (page 18). Hopefully the second version of Advantage can count! I'm one of the suckers that paid good money to become an unsuspecting beta tester for Advantage. Mostly it's a fairly good spreadsheet, but has the tiny little flaw of trashing any number over 6 digits. For example, 123456 is just fine, but 1234567 gets entered as something like 1234570. This is not rounding of the display, but corruption of the data. It's amazing to me that a bug of this magnitude could get past the author, publisher, and every magazine review. (My faith in magazine reviews has dropped a lot!) I've been badgering Gold Disk for over a month now about a fix for this, and they keep promising that the new disk will be sent out "today", but I still don't have it. One of my reasons for getting Advantage was that Gold Disk had a reputation for good customer support (unlike whoever owns MaxiPlan / Plan-IT at the moment), but so far I'm underwhelmed by their support for Advantage. Add another one to the list of potential customers for an Amiga version of Excel or Wingz. Sigh. Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108 blgardne@esunix.UUCP BIX: blaine_g {decwrl, utah-cs}!esunix!blgardne DoD #0046 The Borg killed Laura Palmer!