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From: changwoo@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Chang P. Woo)
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Subject: Re: Scientific Spreadsheet? WingZ is crap!
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Date: 16 Nov 90 03:48:12 GMT
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mike@pyrite.SOM.CWRU.Edu (Michael Kerner) writes:

>Sorry, dude, but I like WingZ.  The way that I look at it, at least I could
>rewrite the entire program using the scripting functions.  I dunno.  I
>hate Excel and can't do enough with WingZ.  You're right that in some cases
>WingZ is a pain, but I think that it's a minority of the time.  For
>some of the presentations that I've done, Excel would cry and wimper and
>run back to Bill claiming that I was picking on it, but WingZ just stands
>there and churns 'em out.

The major problem that I have had with Wingz is the way it deals with
charts. Quite often I need to paste charts to word processors, and doing
it with Wingz is a painful exercise: the idea of changing the
background brush (or whatever) to white and other weird stuffs are ways
above my comprehension level. Of course, the clunky user interface, as
mentioned by others, tries my patience.

I am using Excel these days. I miss all the neat things that I used to
do with the Hyperscript, but I need to have things *done* in a
reasonable amount of time.

As a related subject, is there anyone who wants buy my copy of the
academic edition of Wingz 1.1? It is complete with the new 1.1 manual
(along with Hyperscript manual). I would sell it for $50 (I paid $89 +
$5 s/h + $40? for upgrade to the version 1.1 manuals). Since it is the
academic edition, the buyer needs to be in an academic institution.

Chang
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