Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!zerkle From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: A Spread Sheet. Message-ID: <8229@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 23 Jan 91 23:46:21 GMT References: <1991Jan22.185343.8384@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <15888@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Sender: usenet@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) Distribution: usa Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lines: 20 In article <15888@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland) writes: >There's also Gold Disk Advantage (or GD Home Office Advantage) >in the spreadsheet realm. Good looking, works with the other >Gold Disk office product line, saves 1-2-3 files as well as its >own (and Maxiplan? forget). I remember one particularly >annoying if obscure bug, but this was last year at my workplace >so it may well have been weeded out. With GD it will certainly >be supported throughout the foreseeable future. >-- I have actually spoken with the fellow who wrote this. His comment was that he was amazed at how easy it was to add and AREXX port, even though he knows zilch about AREXX.... Also, he wrote it in Modula 2. I'm going to have to look at that language one of these days.... He's try to make a living off of this product. You'd better believe that Gold Disk is going to support it and release updates. Dan Zerkle zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu (916) 754-0240 Amiga... Because life is too short for boring computers.