In article <KOSOWSKY.96Jan17105009@bellini.harvard.edu> kosowsky@bellini.harvard.edu (Jeffrey J. Kosowsky) writes:
Jeff> I have had good luck so far editing spreadsheets in Excel
Jeff> 3.0a on my P5-100 running Linux & XFree86 (Thanks,
Jeff> ardi). Everything seems to work pretty well.
Yay.
Jeff> My problem is with printing. The "page setup" command only
Jeff> offers a bare-bones minimum of choices. Most glaringly it
Jeff> does not allow landscape printing, you can't change the
Jeff> scale and you can't select the page range -- all of these
Jeff> options are critical for many if not most spreadsheet
Jeff> applications.
Excel 4 allows scaling, but the lack of Landscape vs. Portrait and
page ranges are indeed a lack in Executor. It's too late to add them
to Executor 2, but we will try to get them in fairly soon thereafter.
Under NEXTSTEP the NEXTSTEP printing mechanism automatically handles
this, and when we ported to DOS and Linux we overlooked this feature
until it was too late.
Jeff> Unfortunately, I now have to shutdown & Linux and reboot
Jeff> under the Windoze version of Excel to print my
Jeff> spreadsheets. This is unfortunate since the major reason
Jeff> that I run & love Executor is that it allows me to use
Jeff> Micro$oft applications under Linux
I can certainly appreciate your problem, but by getting Executor 2
shipping we should be able to hire more engineers and get more done
per day than we currently do, so I can't justify holding Executor 2
back to add this (not that you were asking us to).
Jeff> Is there a more feature-rich (PostScript) printer driver? Is
Jeff> this a problem just with Excel 3.0a or is it just that the
Jeff> general PostScript printer driver is not yet completed.
Excel 4 is a little nicer, but you still won't get Portrait
vs. Landscape or page ranges. Sorry.
Jeff> Thanks, Jeff
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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Here is a bug report for some programs/games
Please note that the filenames may not be 100% correct as I can not verify the
filenames as I cannot connect to the ftp site just now. The filenames are
close, therefore if you use the mget xyz* it should get them ok!
Program: Claris Filemaker Pro 3.0
Error: Halt: An unexpected error occurred while installing "".
1008:17,-34 The Disk is full.
Help Files Viewer
Notes: You need to set the system version to 6.0.7 before Filemaker
Pro runs, as it has problems with AppleEvents! If you use
Custom install, and remove the Help files, then the program
will install and run, however it would be nice to get the
