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From: halvard@solan.unit.no (Halvard Halvorsen)
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Subject: was: Wingz ,new : spreadsheet tech.
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Date: 5 Dec 90 02:00:00 GMT
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I've got two things on my desk: a NCD X-terminal and a WYSE-286 PC running
windows and the excellent EXCEL spreadsheet.

Actually I almost can't believe what John writes. What are these guys
doing? There's nothing wrong with spreadsheet technology. I think I can do
the things John is asking for with multiplan (circa 1982?!) on my C-64.
(except for the user interface maybe)

Does anyone know of a decent spreadsheet for X/SunView?

In article <443@brchh104.bnr.ca>, gnu@toad.com writes:
|> Perhaps all spreadsheets are like this, but I couldn't
|> believe that there is no way in it to say 'this column of numbers should
|> come from the spreadsheet called "March", column 1, rows 1-50 every time I
|> open it' for example.  Building annual sheets involves copying all the
|> numbers by hand -- and they don't update when the originals update.  There
|> is some feature that purports to do this, but you have to laboriously open
|> up all twelve monthly spreadsheets on the screen and THEN open up the
|> annual one.  Haven't these guys heard of the file system?