Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!linus!linus!linus!mbunix!sdl From: sdl@lyra.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: Are there any good PD DB or Spreadsheet programs? Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 91 21:44:13 GMT References: <1991Mar26.141106.2015@cbnewsk.att.com> <1991Mar27.224135.1768@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: u3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au's message of 27 Mar 91 12:41:35 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: lyra.mitre.org AnalytiCalc has a lot of features, but on my 68000-based Amiga 2000, it is slow, and flaky. It seems to crash for no good reason--which is why I stopped using it. Each new release of AnalytiCalc seemed to introduce new bugs. AnalytiCalc seems to have incompatibilities with ConMan so that keyboard input is often not accepted properly. (For example, with the latest release, when saving a spreadsheet to a file, it prompts you for the rows and columns to save but begins saving before you even type an answer to its prompts.) And its user interface is pretty poor--no Intuition support. If it had an ARexx port, which enabled you to send it ARexx commands to select a cell and test which cell is currently selected, it would be much more usable. -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,necntc,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"