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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: spreadsheets
Summary: VIP is fine
Keywords: spreadsheets
Message-ID: <1989Dec24.150008.28420@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 24 Dec 89 15:00:08 GMT
References: <8912210816.AA06247@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <20245@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <20245@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> SHAWL@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>> ... VIP Professional. It's lousy. I hate it. Please don't recommend
>> it. I mean, a piece of software with a list price of 130 quid that can't work
>> with a hard disk?

>YOU ARE WRONG.  In spite of its problems, VIP is useful; i use it almost
>daily --- FROM MY HARD DRIVE.  It is easy to set up.

I missed the first posting, but VIP works fine with a hard drive.
There are two versions, a Lotus look-a-like and a GEM version.
GEM is a bit slow unless you use a speedup program for fast screen
updates, but I use VIP all the time to handle Lotus files.  It's good.

-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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