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From: spenton@soc1.ssl.berkeley.edu (Steve Penton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Thumbs Down on Improv's Scientific Ability
Summary: He's Right!
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.032606.2354@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 91 03:26:06 GMT
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In article <441dahla@yoda.byu.edu> dahla@yoda.byu.edu writes:
>Well I was up late last night trying to use my new copy of Improv to generate
>some power curves.  I am an avid Excel user and hoped that catching on to
>Improv without reading all off the pages would be a sinch.  Well, no luck.  It
>appears that Improv will only plot things that say sales, quarters, and
>distributtion costs.
>It appears that Lotus and NeXT are going after a new market of NeXT users.
>Why don't we here from those business oriented Improv lovers on the net?
>
>Just a flame after a lost night of endless data manipulation.
>
>dahla@yoda.byu.edu
>
>BTW - tell me where the hidden undo command is if you find it

I'm with dahla here. Why you can't even mix fonts in a given heading,
and geez no error bars!

When I need a plot I save to a text file whip up a little C program and
let plplot do its thang.

And another thing, Anybody know of a good way to build equations for use
in say WN without resorting to eqn ?  I miss my Expressionist more and
more.

And Another Thing, Anybody know how to convert macintosh graphics      
in an Mac Writenow document for use on my NeXT ?  Ive got a couple
of important files that need help.

BTW- Hitting the esc key sometimes saves the day as an undo


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