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From: folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
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Subject: Kudos for progs that work well together
Summary: Kudos to DeltaGraph & Nisus
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Date: 22 Oct 90 14:51:32 GMT
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System 7.0 will being application-cooperation nirvana, or so we are told.
But there are program combinations that cooperate nicely right here and now.
I'd like to nominate my favorite pair, and see what pairs others might suggest.

DeltaGraph 1.5, in addition to being the best graphing program around, provides
a warm-link-like capability through its scripting language. If you put a
DeltaGraph script in the Clipboard and launch DG, it will read the script,
execute it, paste the graph back into the Clipboard, then quit.

Nisus has an ultra-powerful macro capability, among whose commands is a launch
command.

Putting the two together, I can select a table of text, and with one keystroke
I get a graph placed above the table. There is a lot of window flashing going
on, but the whole process is automated, and the results are great.

So I nominate DG and Nisus for my favorite warm-link-before-System-7 award.
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Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)