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From: Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Graphing packages for windows
Message-ID: <6197@mindlink.bc.ca>
Date: 10 Jun 91 12:10:43 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> sstrazdu@hopi.intel.com writes:
> I've seen Cricket Graph for Windows and Graph in The Box Windows
> advertised. Has anyone used these products?  I've used Cricket Graph on
> the Macintosh.


     Cricket Graph on Windows is currently in release 1.3.  It works well but
has some limitations.  It probably does everything that the current Macintosh
release does.  The telephone support for this product is excellent - Cricket
Graph is part of the Computer Associates stable of programs.  You phone your
local Computer Associates number with the registration number of your package -
they arrange for you to be phoned back long distance (without charge) by the
technical support team for the product.
     Upon complaining of some of Cricket Graphs limitations, I was told that
the programming team was currently working on enhancements to the
Mac version of the program, and that when this was finished they would update
the Windows version so that the two packages operated in a nearly identical
manner.  The support staff were receptive to suggestions for program
improvement, and said that they would pass these along.
     Cricket Graph's main limitations are that it canot do 3D plots, and that
at the moment you can't adjust the thickness of the "plot frame" around the
graph and the thickness of the "tick marks".  Cricket Graph also suffers an UAE
when you try to print out your data if you have the original release of Adobe
Type Manager running - later versions of ATM are supposed to work ok.
--
Bruce Dunn    Vancouver, Canada   Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca