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- From: Wilfred.Hansen@CS.CMU.EDU
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- Subject: Re: Some basic Andrew questions
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:09:05 GMT
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- > From: grasso@Cards.COM (David Grasso)
- > Subject: Some basic Andrew questions
- >
- > I recently found the Andrew site and have been looking at the demo, etc.
- > with my main interest in the Table spreadsheet. I work on a reusable
- > software project for the Air Force and am part of the Software
- > Evaluation Team. Presently, I am looking for spreadsheet software,
- > which is either Public Domain or Governmental-off-the-shelf software.
- >
- > Anyway, I was wondering about Table. Is it a stand-alone package (able
- > to be used without the rest of the Andrew world)? Is it a
- > full-functioning spreadsheet, or basic token spreadsheet, to be used for
- > simple applications? Finally, can Table produce graphs and/or charts to
- > represent the spreadsheet data? Or can it be used in conjunction with a
- > graphics package to create graphs/charts?
-
- The table/spreadsheet inset is fully operational in several ways. Any
- object can appear in a cell. The table prints. And the set of
- equations is updated as in any other spreadsheet. However, the code
- does not support automatic generation of graphs and charts.
-
- Doing graphs and charts from table is tantalizing close and would take
- a programmer only a month or so, but the Consortium members have not
- had this as a priority. There are two ways it could be added:
- either an outsider can do the code and contribute it, or existing or
- new members may express it as a priority project, in which case the
- Consortium staff could undertake the work.
-
- Fred Hansen
- Andrew Consortium, Carnegie Mellon
- (412) 268-6788 wjh+@andrew.cmu.edu
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