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From: BVAUGHAN@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Wanted: Graphing Software
Message-ID: <7854@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 10 Apr 89 16:31:15 GMT
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In article <2373@maccs.McMaster.CA>, cs3b3aj@maccs.McMaster.CA (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:

>
>   I learned to use Harvard Graphics at my summer job in 1988.  I found it
>very easy to use with a keyboard (I didn't have the opportunity to try it
>out with a mouse).  I have only a couple of complaints about it:
>
>- It does not allow items on screen to be rotated or reflected...
>- The fonts are also imperfect...
Harvard Graphics has two other drawbacks that prevent me from using
it as my only graphing program:
   1) It cannot plot an equation.
   2) It has only four line types: thin solid, thick solid (not very
distinguishable from thin solid), dotted and dashed. If you plot more
lines than that on one graph, you have to use point markers (of which
there are 13 to choose from) to distinguish the lines. If the points
are close together, as they would be if you try to simulate the plot
of a nonlinear equation, this is unacceptably messy looking

These drawbacks make Harvard Graphics unsuitable for most statistical,
scientific and mathematical purposes. For these applications, I use
Energraphics, which also has faults, but none that I can't live with.