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From: afc@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Greg Flint)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Borland's Quattro Pro
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Date: 10 Jan 90 08:30:40 GMT
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I'm using QPRO on a Z-151 (4.77Mhz, 720K+) with CGA and a 30M RLL disk (slow).
I upgraded from QUATTRO a month or so ago.  I've had no problems and have found
the new version quite useful.  The VROOM (sp?) does allow me to load larger
spreadsheets than the old version.

The only drawback for me is that the new QPRO only uses high-res CGA (b+w)
graphics.  This makes my old 3-color line graphs almost impossible to use.
I have two work-arounds:

	1) Use the old version of Quattro to do the plots by having QPRO
	   generate a backwards-compatible file (e.g., .WKQ or .WKZ).  This
	   is fine if you don't use any of the "fancy" QPRO features (like
	   linked spreadsheets).

	2) Convert the line graphs to bar or area graphs if possible.  While
	   perhaps not the most appropriate style, the bar graphs have allowed
	   me to keep using my old CGA machine.
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