Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!ariel!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!wehi!baxter_a From: BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: SpreadSheets Message-ID: <24243@wehi.dn.mu.oz> Date: 31 Mar 91 16:53:57 GMT References: <1991Mar27.002125.8812@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar27.124236.14227@sarah.albany.edu> Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute Lines: 40 In article <1991Mar27.124236.14227@sarah.albany.edu>, hb136@leah.albany.edu (Herb Brown) writes: > In article <1991Mar27.002125.8812@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >>In article moore@iastate.edu (Moore Brian Joseph) writes: >>> >>>Can anyone give me some good ideas for an Amiga SpreadSheet. >>> >> From what I've heard the only really decent spreadsheet >>is Advantage from Gold Disk. There is MaxiPlan Plus 2.0, but I >>would recommend avoiding it. MaxiPlan, as well as everything else >>its author Mike Lehman has worked on, are exceedingly buggy. >> >>>Brian J. Moore >>>moore@iastate.edu >> >> >> -- Ethan >> > > > If you set the stack to 50,000, then MaxiPlan III seems to work with > no hitch whatsoever. MaxiPlan has many nice features and takes full > advantage of the Amiga's intuition. > > Herb > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The two bugs that get me every time are : 1) You can't have more than one window open at a time. 2) Every now and then the highlight routine wanders off through the rest of memory inverting bits. Does neat things to every other screen open. Not very nice for anyone who had some data they were rather attached to though. I always thought Mike Lehman was the name of an American commedian. Now I know it is. Regards Alan