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- Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, March 5, 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 31
-
- Today's Topics:
- Re: SAS/Graph on a Mac
- Re: A/UX disk I/O (real numbers)
- Re: How about Epsilon for the MAC?
- A/UX troff (was Re: A/UX disk I/O (real numbers))
- Re: A/UX disk I/O (real numbers)
- WriteNow->MS Word?
- Re: SoundCap (Formerly: Short review of MacRecorder, by Farallon)
- Re: WriteNow format needed
- A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc
- Re: A/UX disk I/O (real numbers)
- A/UX comments
- Plotter file (multi-pen) output to LW or LQ printers?
- New MacPaint core dumps/freezes under A/UX
- Re: Software for the Mac -- recommendations wanted.
- Maybe I'm dumb but...
- Software for the Mac: spreadsheets
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- From: cole@sas.UUCP (Tom Cole)
- Subject: Re: SAS/Graph on a Mac
- Date: 23 Feb 88 15:13:33 GMT
- Organization: SAS Institute Inc.,Cary NC,25712
-
- Gosh, I hate to eat my words. Here's the deal on a SAS/Graph
- application. We (that is SAS Institute) will develope a Technical Report
- that will include a Mac diskette with the application on it. The Tech
- report will explain how it works, etc. It will be distributed by SAS,
- and will cost nearly nothing (less than $20, I believe), mostly to cover
- cost of publication and distribution.
-
- So Don't Send Me A Disk. If it's too late, I'll mail it back with what
- I have so far, but it won't be pretty. I'll post again as soon as the
- kit is ready (a few weeks at most, mostly for printing time) etc.
-
- However, if you have any requests for features or opinions about what
- file formats should be output, etc., please let me know Real Soon Now.
-
- I apologize if this has turned into a business deal on the net, it is
- our intention to provide this feature as cheaply as distribution will
- allow, and give equal access to all our customers (USENET and
- non-USENET).
-
-
- A secondary unrelated question, that is purely hypothetical. ;-) Is
- there any interest in a full front-end workstation implementation of the
- SAS/RLink protocol for Macs? By this I mean a Mac editor window, and
- nice Mac windows for SAS output, logs, and graphs? No local processing,
- but full Remote Submit, etc.? If you have SAS and don't understand what
- I am talking about, find someone who has PC SAS and ask about remote
- submit. We are discussing the possibility of such an project and I
- would be very interested in any responses to the idea.
- --
-
- Tom Cole
- VAX/VMS Host Group
- SAS Institute Inc.
- PO Box 8000
- Cary NC 27512-8000
-
- (919) 467-8000 x7642
-
- My opinions ARE those of my employer, but they just don't realize it yet...
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: martin@uhccux.UUCP (Brian Martin)
- Subject: Re: A/UX disk I/O (real numbers)
- Date: 25 Feb 88 10:39:47 GMT
- Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
-
- Actually, they did go for the Berkeley file system. I was at an A/UX
- demo last week, and managed to corner their engineer. It turns out that
- they are using an antiquated version of the Berkeley file system, back
- before symbolic pointers were introduced.
-
- Some other interesting points... Although Apple bundles in the
- Documenter's Work Bench, their troff doesn't produce Postscript output.
- You still need to buy one of the 3rd-party troff packages that supports
- Postscript.
-
- The "site license" for A/UX is $25,000. But they didn't know how a site
- license would be handled, e.g., whether one Apple-supplied disk would be
- sold to the user, from which multiple copies of A/UX would be loaded
- onto other disks.
-
- Security might be a problem. It seems that you could boot the Mac OS,
- then use a Mac program to scan and modify i-node information on the A/UX
- disk, effectively bypassing the /etc/passwd and /etc/group protections.
- The Apple engineer didn't have a good answer to this potential problem;
- perhaps someone else does.
- --
- Regards,
- Brian K. Martin, M.D.
-
- ARPA: uhccux!medix!martin@nosc.MIL
- UUCP: { ihnp4,ucbvax,dcdwest,uunet }!ucsd!nosc!uhccux!medix!martin
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum)
- Subject: Re: How about Epsilon for the MAC?
- Date: 25 Feb 88 16:59:13 GMT
- Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
-
- In article <3469@ece-csc.UUCP> jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall)
- writes:
- >Does anyone know whether Lugaru is going to support Epsilon for the Mac, or
- >whether something similar is/will be available?
-
- MacJove (Jove 4.9) will be available VERY soon. It retains all the
- traditional key bindings, plus the use of menus and window controls. It
- will be free.
-
- -Ken Mitchum
- Univ of Pgh
- Decision Systems Lab
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: greely@elm.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)
- Subject: A/UX troff (was Re: A/UX disk I/O (real numbers))
- Date: 26 Feb 88 03:49:32 GMT
- Organization: Giant Robots 'r' us
-
- In article <1607@uhccux.UUCP> uhccux!medix!martin (Brian K. Martin,
- M.D.) writes:
- >Some other interesting points... Although Apple bundles in the
- >Documenter's Work Bench, their troff doesn't produce Postscript
- >output. You still need to buy one of the 3rd-party troff packages that
- >supports Postscript.
-
- The product release that was posted a few weeks ago explicitly stated
- that the TranScript package was included with A/UX. This includes a set
- of filters that transforms Troff output to PostScript. It's not as good
- as having a native PostScript version, but it works quite nicely.
-
- The only problem I've had with using TranScript (on a Sun 3/50) is
- that the pscat filter (C/A/T to PostScript) seems to have some
- misconceptions about page size (troff -man -t foo.1 | pscat | lpr should
- print a manual page for foo, but the page footers disappear).
- --
- -=-
- -j, greely@satcom3.cis.ohio-state.edu
- "Tandoori to go. That's all they went out for, these people... Tandoori
- to go... and *instead*, they... they got..." -- Watchmen
- -----
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
- Subject: Re: A/UX disk I/O (real numbers)
- Date: 26 Feb 88 00:33:02 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
-
- >
- >Security might be a problem. It seems that you could boot the Mac OS,
- >then use a Mac program to scan and modify i-node information on the
- >A/UX disk, effectively bypassing the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
- >protections. The Apple engineer didn't have a good answer to this
- >potential problem; perhaps someone else does.
- >
-
- On any unix system this is a problem. Go up to a micro version of
- unix. Reboot from a floppy with a small unix kernel on it. (say XENIX
- and the XENIX distribution disk). you will now be superuser. Edit the
- /etc/passwd file so that root has no password. Reboot. Anytime anyone
- has full access to a system you don't have security. That's why god
- created machine rooms.
-
- Note that the above instructions were taken from the Microsoft XENIX
- manual What to do if you Forget the SuperUser Password. Bozos.
- Pierce Wetter
-
- Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity?
-
- And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?
- -- Dave Barry, "What is Electricity?"
- --
- --------------------------------------------
-
- wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu
-
- --------------------------------------------
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel)
- Subject: WriteNow->MS Word?
- Date: 26 Feb 88 17:08:26 GMT
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
-
-
- Does anyone have or know of a conversion utility to take WriteNow files
- and convert them to MS Word 3.0 format? I have some largish (50+ pages)
- WN docs full of graphics, and I'd like to minimize the pain.
-
- Rich
- --
- ===================================================================
- Richard Siegel
- Confused Undergrad, Carnegie-Mellon University
-
- The opinions stated here do not represent the policies
- of Carnegie-Mellon University.
-
- Arpa: rich.siegel@andrew.cmu.edu
- UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,sun}!andrew.cmu.edu!rich.siegel
- ==================================================================
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: spryn@cci632.UUCP (Mike Spryn)
- Subject: Re: SoundCap (Formerly: Short review of MacRecorder, by Farallon)
- Date: 26 Feb 88 16:46:22 GMT
- Organization: CCI, Communications Systems Division, Rochester, NY
-
- In article <8802081838.AA18733@jade.berkeley.edu> EE2Y@CRNLVAX5.BITNET
- (Brian Campbell) writes:
- >For those wondering what ever happened to SoundCap, the sound digitizer, it has
- >been bought out by Impulse; it is now called Sound Wave.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- NOT TRUE!!!
-
- Fractal Software, the author and STILL THE OWNER of SoundCap is alive!
- Impulse (formerly MacNifty Central) did have exclusive right to sell
- SoundCap. Impulse has since come up with its own visual audio editor
- called SoundWave. Fractal Software and Impulse are no longer dealing
- with each other. The last time I talked to Fractal, they were busy (1)
- enhancing SoundCap (2) producing a clean port to Mac II (3) looking for
- a new publisher.
-
- Of all the visual audio editors that I have examined, I think SoundCap
- has the nicest user interface for waveform editing. (Waveform editing
- is the primary task for my application.)
-
- Fractal Software ( Tom Hedges or Mark Zimmer ) can be reached at:
-
- Fractal Software
- 377 Bowen Ave.
- Aptos, CA 95003
-
- (408) 688-2496
- --
-
- Michael D. Spryn --> rutgers!rochester!cci632!spryn
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: ev04+@andrew.cmu.edu (Edward Bertram Victor)
- Subject: Re: WriteNow format needed
- Date: 26 Feb 88 19:15:06 GMT
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
-
-
- I have gotten the WriteNow File Format for the Macintosh directly from
- T/Maker. They will galdly send you a copy. However, they do not
- supposrt it, so you ren't supposed to ask them any questions. But they
- do supply it. It is accurate to the best of my knowledge; I have used
- the format extensively.
- --
- -- Ed Victor (ev04@andrew.cmu.edu)
- Carnegie Mellon University
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
- Subject: A/UX window systems, Mac toolbox, etc
- Date: 26 Feb 88 22:11:39 GMT
- Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco
-
- phil@apple.UUCP (Phil Ronzone, A/UX Technical Manager) wrote:
- > Remember - it is a Mac. Under A/UX or the Mac OS, you have the Toolbox
- > and the Mac look and feel. Ain't nobody else got that ...
-
- This claim requires some looking behind the hype.
-
- Under the MacOS, you indeed get the Toolbox and the Mac look and feel.
-
- Under A/UX, you can run a small subset of Mac applications -- the ones
- that strictly follow the latest guidelines for cleanliness. However,
- there is no convenient way to transfer a Mac application from its home
- on Mac floppies or hard disk, into the Unix file system. There is a
- program that will read 400K, non-HFS floppies and extract the files
- therein. There is *no* way to read standard 800K MacOS floppies, or an
- HFS floppy, or an HFS disk partition, from Unix. I suppose you could
- get a second mac, and transfer the programs and all their data files
- over with xmodem, but I doubt many people will bother. It's easier to
- shutdown A/UX and reboot the MacOS.
-
- Under A/UX, you have access to the Toolbox. It's a library in /lib. If
- you have source for a Mac application, you can do some of the Toolbox
- calls, compile it, link it with this library, and they work. However,
- you can only run one such application at a time -- it takes over the
- whole screen, and you can't get to Unix any more, except over the serial
- ports or Ethernet. No control-Z. No multiple windows. You are either
- in the application or you are talking to a Unix shell, not both. There
- is no equivalent to "switcher" or "multifinder".
-
- When you boot up A/UX, you get a "terminal emulator" on your screen.
- This is just like the terminal emulator you get on a Sun before you
- bring up the window system -- it looks like an ANSI terminal, with 35
- lines and 89 columns, like a slightly bigger VT100. However, they have
- cleverly painted a mac-looking box around the outside of the terminal
- emulator. There's a menu bar at the top -- with all the words in grey.
- You can't hit any of them. There's a box around the terminal "window",
- with a title bar. You can't hit it. There isn't even a mouse cursor.
- This is a cute trick, but that's all it is. It doesn't do any kind of
- graphics, it's just a terminal.
-
- So you say you want windows! Well, Apple has provided them. The single
- Toolbox application, term, that comes with your A/UX port provides
- multiple windows. However, this is just more VT100's on your screen.
- You can have up to 4 ANSI terminal emulators in a variety of sizes.
- They can even overlap. (They have to, unless you bought a third party
- large monitor, or you like dinky VT100s.) There is no graphics support,
- however, and you can't run any Mac applications because you are already
- running a Toolbox program and you can only run one at a time. I would
- not call this a window system, certainly not in the sense of NeWS or X
- or SunView or Andrew or the Apollo window system. It's more like "uw".
- Also, "term" is not a supported part of A/UX. If you find bugs in it,
- it's your problem.
-
- Don't burn up a lot of money buying color graphics boards for your
- Mac-II yet; A/UX doesn't support them. If your color board supports
- monochrome, A/UX can use it -- until you try a Toolbox application. It
- seems that frame buffer manufacturers have to alter the configuration
- ROMs on their boards before A/UX can put up a mouse cursor. Of course,
- if your color board does not support a 1-bit mode, A/UX can't use it at
- all. And it can only handle one screen right now, even if you have
- several. They have promised to fix this Real Soon Now.
-
- The Apple marketing effort here is a masterpiece of hype. I have the
- brochure they distributed at UniForum. The outer folder ("There are
- currently more than 50 types of UNIX in the world.") has four pictures
- of Mac screens. Three of them are running MacOS applications (one from
- MultiFinder; the others we can't tell), and are photographed from
- straight above the Mac, so you can barely see the screen. The fourth is
- running unavailable software from Brown University that brings up
- pictures and text from British novels, using the Toolbox. (By the way,
- they are calling the Brown stuff "hypertext" and taking Ted Nelson's
- name in vain. It ain't hypertext, it's just hype.)
-
- Contained in the folder is a short letter and three flyers. The "Apple
- A/UX Operating System" flyer has a single large picture: the Brown U.
- software again (which is, of course, *not* in A/UX and not commercially
- available either). The "Macintosh II Personal Computer" flyer, for
- once, is free of hype. The "A/UX Support Services" flyer is headed by a
- big picture of a mailing envelope with an "A/UX Update" tape hanging out
- of it. Of course, this tape is in the 40MB Apple SCSI tape format,
- which is not supported by A/UX.
-
- In their booth, Apple was demonstrating a version of X windows. However,
- if pressed, they revealed that it was X.10, not X.11, that it was not
- available for purchase, and would never be available; and that they
- could not talk about possible release dates for X.11.
-
- I'd hate to be totally negative in this article, so let me just say that
- there *is* a window system for A/UX. You just can't buy it from Apple.
- We sell it; it's called MacNews, and it's a straight port of Sun's NeWS,
- with all of NeWS's problems and all of NeWS's virtues. The first test
- copy went out last night, and it has a firm release date and a firm
- price.
-
- I'm a techie through and through and I hate to see people get away with
- marketing bullshit. If you buy A/UX, buy it because you know what you
- are getting, not because you believed an Apple snow job.
- --
- {pyramid,ptsfa,amdahl,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com
- "Watch me change my world..." -- Liquid Theatre
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
- Subject: Re: A/UX disk I/O (real numbers)
- Date: 26 Feb 88 15:04:33 GMT
- Organization: occasionally
-
- In article <8802251936.AA23485@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
- dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
- > [references to an A/UX IO message I posted... -fnf]
- > The new Fast File System for the Amiga will go at 75KBytes/sec.
- >(600Kbps). Also, the CLtd HD is the worst possible choice one can make
- >for a comparison.
-
- I neglected to point out to the comp.sys.mac readers, who probably
- aren't at all familiar with the history of Amiga hard disks, that the
- numbers I posted were VERY old, from one of the first hard disks
- available. I agree 100% that these numbers should not be used to make
- comparisons between the two machines. The Amiga situation has improved
- considerably! Sorry about any confusion...
-
- -Fred
- --
- # Fred Fish hao!noao!mcdsun!fishpond!fnf (602) 921-1113
- # Ye Olde Fishpond, 1346 West 10th Place, Tempe, AZ 85281 USA
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: newton@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Mike Newton)
- Subject: A/UX comments
- Date: 27 Feb 88 11:03:12 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
-
-
- While I generally agree on John Gilmore's comments I want to point out
- one small correction -- under the 'term' emulator package that comes w/
- A/UX you can have far more than 4 vt100 windows. However, note that
- 'term' is considered a demo program and is not supported. I also find
- it a little slow.
-
- ---
-
- I have been a beta tester for A/UX and sent them about 35 bug reports --
- bugs that hopefully have been fixed in the 'release' version. Because
- of the lack of tape drive (even assuming I could afford it), I have been
- running 'un-backed-up' for many months now. (Floppies are far too
- painful). This does NOT leave me with a good feeling! I have system
- managed vaxen, suns and IBM mainframes. I believe in backups.
-
- Disk i/o is SLOW. My hope is that someday (especially since Apples
- share of the PC market has doubled in the last half-year) someone will
- bring out a new SCSI port on a NuBus slot -- along w/ the necessary
- A/UX software. I dont know why Apple left the DMA interrup line
- unconnected, but I think it is the stupidest thing that....
-
- Anyway, despite these two problems, I really like haveing A/UX at home.
- It has allowed me to get a lot more work done than I would have
- otherwise.
- --
- - mike
-
- ps: John -- if you want someone to beta NeWS under A/uX, i'm interested!
- ps: Coming soon -- the updated src/sysdep.c for Gnu Emacs 18.50 under A/UX.
- --
- newton@csvax.caltech.edu {ucbvax!cithep,amdahl}!cit-vax!newton
- Caltech 256-80 818-356-6771 (afternoons,nights)
- Pasadena CA 91125 Beach Bums Anonymous, Pasadena President
-
- "Reality is a lie that hasn't been found out yet..."
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: kurfurst@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Thomas Kurfurst)
- Subject: Plotter file (multi-pen) output to LW or LQ printers?
- Date: 27 Feb 88 07:25:26 GMT
- Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
-
- How may one obtain plotter file output on Apple's Laser Writer or LQ
- printer's? In other words how can obtain multi-pen (ie differing pen
- width and/or colour) output on these printers.
-
- Is it possible to setup/configure either of these printers to recognize
- different pens in plotter files?
-
- Does a program exist which may translate plotter files to a format
- (ascii or postscript etc ...) that allows for multi-pen output on the
- printers in question?
-
- Any advice, pointers etc ... will be appreciated. Thanks!
- --
- ________
-
- Thomas Kurfurst kurfurst@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (CSnet,UUCP,Bitnet)
- 205 Wineva Road kurfurst@gpu.utcs.toronto.cdn (EANeX.400)
- Toronto, Ontario {decvax,ihnp4,utcsri,{allegra,linus}!utzoo}!utcs!kurfurst
- CANADA M4E 2T5 kurfurst%gpu.utcs.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net (CSnet)
- (416) 699-5738
-
- ________
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: buzz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mahboud Zabetian)
- Subject: New MacPaint core dumps/freezes under A/UX
- Date: 27 Feb 88 10:39:12 GMT
- Organization: Advanced Technology, Princeton University
-
-
- We just got the new Claris MacPaint today. I loaded it up on A/UX, ran
- it and guess what? It ran. It worked wonderfully; I could paint, open
- other files, save to the A/UX filesystem, etc.... It was too good to be
- true!!
-
- And then I tried to tear away the tear-away Tools menu. Everything
- froze for about a minute and then dumped core.
-
- Next try I ran into a worse problem. I closed all the MacPaint windows,
- and went to the File menu to open a document, and-----ALL THE MENUS BUT
- THE EDIT MENU WERE DISABLED!!!!!! So I was stuck. I couldn't even
- quit. So I had to log into A/UX over EtherNet and kill -9
- pid(MacPaint)!!
-
- Sounds like Claris isn't following the guidelines. Uh oh. (Claris,
- I'll be available soon if you need any help :-)
-
- ps. Under Mac OS if you close all windows, all menus but File are
- disabled. I guess A/UX mistakenly disables all but the next menu; the
- Edit menu.
- --
- Mahboud Zabetian buzz@phoenix.princeton.edu
- 183 Little Hall (609) 520-1271
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (609) 734-7760
- ****** Anyone need a soon-to-graduate hardware/software engineer? ********
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: cs224052@brap0929 (Scott Draves)
- Subject: Re: Software for the Mac -- recommendations wanted.
- Date: 25 Feb 88 02:45:26 GMT
- Organization: SAE (Students against Education)
-
-
- Chuq recommends Excel or Works for any spreadsheet users.
-
- I have to disagree. While Excel was the first real spreadsheet on the
- Mac, and probably the most powerfull spreadsheet anywhere, that is all
- you can say for it. Its interface is a direct descendent of Visicalc,
- down to the little bar at the top of the screen showing the current cell
- contents. Programming the spreadsheet is far better than it was on the
- Apple II, but it still sucks. I feel that a quantum leap is needed in
- the spreadsheet market. Excel is just another Microsoft IBM PC style
- program on the Mac.
-
- What to do until my dream spreadsheet appears? Try Trapeze. I think it
- is has a much better interface than Excel, despite its funny 'icon bar.'
- Trapeze was written on the Mac, for the Mac, by people who love the
- Mac. It shows.
-
- -Scott
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: omh@nancy (Owen M. Hartnett)
- Subject: Maybe I'm dumb but...
- Date: 26 Feb 88 02:48:54 GMT
- Organization: Brown University Computer Science Dept.
-
- I can't figure out why this doesn't work:
-
- Draw a Picture in MacPaint, save to Scrapbook, copy it out of Scrapbook
- with ResEdit and paste into my application.
-
- Still in ResEdit, open the picture (Open general) and alter the picFrame
- rectangle so that it is relative to point 0,0 (i.e. change the left
- coordinate to 0 and adjust the right coordinate so that it maintains the
- same width, do likewise for top and bottom).
-
- Now, from my application, Get the picture, and call
- DrawPicture(myPic,myPic^^.picFrame);
-
- Now, wouldn't you expect the picture to get drawn in the upper left
- corner of your window? Nah... It's somewhere in your window.
-
- I've even done:
-
- FrameRect(myPic^^,picFrame);
- DrawPicture(myPic,myPic^^.picFrame);
-
- and the Picture is *not* inside the Rectangle.
-
- ...and, if you try to install myPic in the windowPic field of your
- window, you don't know where it's going to go, either.
-
- Any ideas?
- --
- Owen Hartnett
- Brown University Computer Science
-
- omh@cs.brown.edu.CSNET
- omh%cs.brown.edu
- {ihnp4,allegra}!brunix!omh
-
- "Don't wait up for me tonight because I won't be home for a month."
- -W.C. Fields
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: simon@alberta.UUCP (Simon Tortike)
- Subject: Software for the Mac: spreadsheets
- Date: 27 Feb 88 19:12:40 GMT
- Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
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- Someone earlier made a request for software suggestions for the
- Macintosh. Amoung these was a request for spreadsheets. Excel and a few
- others were mentioned by various people, but I would like to promote the
- spreadsheet program `Trapeze'. I used Excel for about two years before
- being shown Trapeze and I find that as someone who is quite comfortable
- with linear algebra, Trapeze is much easier to comprehend. Bar a few
- inconsistancies, I could best describe it as APL on a spreadsheet, with
- the added benefits of text fields and a far more sensible implementation
- of plotting facilities than Excel or Chart. All numbers are
- two-dimensional arrays, usually named, and can be used as arrays in all
- arithmetic on the worksheets. The results are all autosized, as in APL.
- There is even a ravel function. My only complaint so far is the
- convoluted way in which a trivial array operation such as
- vector_a(index(i)) = vector_b(i) can be implemented, where i=1..n. Of
- course, I might be missing something trivial. Traditional spreadsheets
- stick too close to the limitations of the original paper spreadsheet for
- me, and appear to be designed for those who are not familiar with linear
- algebra. I would like to hear from other users of Trapeze, via e-mail,
- and would like to see some discussion on the net of the merits and
- deficiencies of spreadsheets in general.
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- W. Simon Tortike
- Dept Min, Met & UUCP: ...{ubc-vision,ihnp4,mnetor}!alberta!simon
- Petroleum Engg BITNET: stortike@ualtavm
- Univ. of Alberta AGT: (403) 432-3338
- Edmonton, AB
- Canada T6G 2G6
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