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CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
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12/05/89 23:26:34
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Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?{\{\{^U
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?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss
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Logging name to disk...
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You are caller 210846; next msg =42851; 374 active msgs.
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Prev. call 12/03/89 @ 22:00, next msg was 42837
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Recording logon for next time.
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Use FULL? to check assignments
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?^U
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?xxxxx
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"Mine" command checking fo
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>Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-30 log,ward c;or;*;short
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LOG. 12
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KILLED. 80
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SUMMARY. 24
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12/03/89,22:00:28,210798,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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E#42837,
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E#42838,
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E#42839,
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E#42840,22
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12/03/89,23:21:41,210799,1,BEN TEIFELD,,6
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12/03/89,23:35:03,210800,2,ERIC BOHLMAN,,
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E#42841,7
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12/04/89,00:37:46,210801,1,STEVE RYAN,,1
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12/04/89,01:02:52,210802,1,STEVE RYAN,,
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12/04/89,01:05:37,210803,1,STEVE RYAN,,
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12/04/89,05:19:07,210804,2,PETE JONES,,2
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12/04/89,06:09:17,210805,2,BILL PRECHT,,28
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12/04/89,06:46:24,210806,1,BARRY FUERST,,
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E#42842,9
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]Like any outher BBS your take a little time to get use to. I will eventualy
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hasck your system out! Feel free to give me a call (voice ) 708-386-3930
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I would like to talk to the programmer of several CP/m programs I have
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in person. Regards, Barry Fuerst
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BARRY FUERST,
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12/04/89,07:11:07,210807,1,GARY MASSENGILL,,2
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12/04/89,07:22:03,210808,2,ED FOSTER,,2
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12/04/89,07:36:12,210809,2,DENNIS STAHL,,3
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12/04/89,09:11:21,210810,2,MIKE KAVADIAS,,12
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12/04/89,09:31:35,210811,2,ED FOSTER,,
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E#42843,2
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12/04/89,09:57:47,210812,2,JAMES KARAGANIS,,2
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12/04/89,10:07:31,210813,2,JAMES KARAGANIS,,
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E#42844,
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>Help: HELP SEARCH,
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>Help: 1,L[NE NOISE,20
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12/04/89,11:44:16,210814,2,JOHN ZWIERZYNA,,13
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12/04/89,12:03:29,210815,1,DALE RANDALL,Florissant/ Missouri,8
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12/04/89,12:41:26,210816,1,THAN NGUYEN,,
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12/04/89,13:50:03,210817,1,BILL WOLFF,,
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E#42845,
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E#42846,12
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12/04/89,16:11:23,210818,1,BILL WOLFF,,1
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12/04/89,17:37:23,210819,3,BRIAN SCHULTZ,Chicago/Il,7
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12/04/89,20:05:53,210820,1,COLIN SCHROEDER,,
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]>> got Flash<<
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]Ward: thanks for the tip! I must admit that often I'm a bit sloppy!
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I'm used to writing quick reply letters to our foreign users, most
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of whom use left aligned paragraphs with no indenting! I see full
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well how much it would help here!
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Thanks again for providing such a great board--the information
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exchanged here has helped me immeasurably!
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Regards,
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Colin
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COLIN SCHROEDER,
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12/04/89,20:34:08,210821,2,ALEX ZELL,,
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12/04/89,20:51:05,210822,2,MATT AU,chicago illinois,
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>Help: [,8
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12/04/89,21:03:15,210823,3,STEVE TURMAN,,6
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12/04/89,21:18:28,210824,2,PHIL JERN,,3
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12/04/89,21:39:09,210825,1,LANE LARRISON,,2
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12/04/89,23:01:00,210826,2,ERIC BOHLMAN,,
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E#42847,5
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12/04/89,23:16:53,210827,1,RON PACE,,1
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12/04/89,23:25:55,210828,1,MIKE DEER,,5
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12/05/89,00:25:12,210829,2,PAUL BERKER,,4
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12/05/89,00:48:02,210830,2,JIM ANDERSON,,
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E#42848,20
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12/05/89,01:50:11,210831,2,JIM MORAVEC,,6
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12/05/89,06:12:12,210832,1,MICHAEL MCDANIEL,,4
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12/05/89,07:34:46,210833,3,MURRAY ARNOW,,4
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12/05/89,11:28:04,210834,1,BILL WOLFF,,2
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12/05/89,13:21:34,210835,2,VERNE ARASE,,
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E#42849,9
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12/05/89,13:57:53,210836,1,TED BANACKA,NILES/ MI,8
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12/05/89,15:24:11,210837,1,LANE LARRISON,,1
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12/05/89,18:28:15,210838,1,COLIN SCHROEDER,,
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E#42850,10
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12/05/89,19:34:54,210839,1,KEVIN KEYSER,,13
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12/05/89,20:32:05,210840,2,MARTY DIPPEL,,8
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12/05/89,20:57:05,210841,2,PHIL JERN,,1
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12/05/89,21:40:07,210842,1,JOE JESSON,,
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12/05/89,22:03:17,210843,2,MICHAEL GIFFORD,,5
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12/05/89,22:56:55,210844,2,JIM ANDERSON,,4
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12/05/89,23:19:49,210845,2,ERIC BOHLMAN,,1
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12/05/89,23:26:38,210846,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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42837 12/03/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => BOB SULLIVAN: "R/PSION ORGANISER"
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42838 12/03/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ALL: "USING GRANDVIEW?"
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42839 12/03/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ALL: "STOCKS SPREADSHEET?"
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42840 12/03/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ALL: "QUATTRO-PRO"
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42841 12/03/89 ERIC BOHLMAN => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "BORLAND"
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42842 12/04/89 BARRY FUERST => WARD CHRISTANSON: "WHAT ARE 'Z' FILES?"
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42843 12/04/89 ED FOSTER => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/QUATTRO-PRO"
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42844 12/04/89 JAMES KARAGANIS => ALAN LAYA: "UTILITIES"
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42845 12/04/89 BILL WOLFF => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/QUATTRO-PRO"
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42846 12/04/89 BILL WOLFF => ALL: "4DOS AND DOS 4.0"
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42847 12/04/89 ERIC BOHLMAN => BARRY FUERST: "R/WHAT ARE 'Z' FILES?"
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42848X 12/05/89 JIM ANDERSON => COLIN SCHROEDER: "R/PC-BASED UNIX OS"
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42849 12/05/89 VERNE ARASE => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/QUATTRO-PRO"
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42850 12/05/89 COLIN SCHROEDER => JIM ANDERSON: "R/PC-BASED UNIX OS"
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- End of summary -
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Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts.
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Msg 42837 is 09 line(s) on 12/03/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to BOB SULLIVAN re: R/PSION ORGANISER
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What are you looking to do with the Organizer? I've seen 'em at
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a store in downtown (which was out of biz last time I checked).
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I also saw 'em at Comdex, and their "new" machine.
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The Organizer is a small computer, in a very - to me - ungainly
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shape - about like a "Fluke" digital multimeter. In other words, the
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vertical format and thickness leave a lot to be desired. However, it
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DOES seem to work out well for some applications. I guess I'm just not
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into "dedicated applications" for which it might be appropriate.
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What is YOUR application?
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Msg 42838 is 14 line(s) on 12/03/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to ALL re: USING GRANDVIEW?
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Anyone else using Grandview? Any comments on it?
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Grandview is a very good outliner for the PC. It was written by the
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same author as PC Outline, which came under problems due to being sold
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to Brown Bag. John Friend has really done a nice job with GV, but it
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commands a premium price (around $200).
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It really helps you organize your thoughts in outline form, so you
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can see just the main headings, or any level of detail you wish. You
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can export and import a variety of formats, as well as of course, print
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either to printer or disk.
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What attracted me to it was the totally customizable keyboard. Even
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when there wasn't a key to do something I wanted, I was able to define
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a macro executed by a control key, that "simulated" the function - i.e.
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so now that the macro is defined, I don't even notice that the key does
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anything unusual. Nicely, the macro def's are loaded automatically.
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Msg 42839 is 15 line(s) on 12/03/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to ALL re: STOCKS SPREADSHEET?
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Anyone have any thoughts about the best way to organize a spreadsheet
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for keeping track of stock transactions? Basically what I do is create:
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name date buy/sell shares cost charges total
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for headings, with buy/sell being a 1 or -1 so that I simply multiply
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the costs by that column to get a + or - value. I then total vertically,
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to give me the net of a buy/sell transaction. Example:
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IBM 12/01/88 -1 10 123.00 50 -1280.00
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IBM 03/03/89 -1 10 117.00 45 -1215.00
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IBM 12/01/89 1 20 97.50 90 1860.00 -635.00
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i.e. the final line sums the total lines.
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Anyone have any better ideas? One of the problems I have is stocks that
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are bought one year and sold another - I guess I just have to keep them
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in my spreadsheet forever, then do my taxes based upon only those I bought
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and sold in a particular year. Now that there's no long term vs short
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term, that part is easier to compute.
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Msg 42840 is 15 line(s) on 12/03/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to ALL re: QUATTRO-PRO
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Just received my official copy of Quattro Pro. Boy, what a spreadsheet!
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It has such a good graph annotater that it can be used to produce simple
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charts independent of any spreadsheet numbers (this is called a "text
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chart").
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It displays in graphics mode (ega/vga) or in EGA 43 line or VGA 50
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line, or of course 25 line mode.
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The formula capabilits are very nice, but I'm not qualified to compare
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it to anything else - I avoided Lotus all these years due to its policy
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of copy protection. I had Super Calc for a few years, but became a
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Borland fan due to all the languages, Reflex, etc. (I'm sorry they're
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finding it necessary to narrow down their focus to just a handful of
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products - ASM, Pascal, C, Quattro, and one other, I forget which).
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Anyone else ordered it or gotten it? I particularly like the fact
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that it behaves well without gobs of memory (will theoretically even
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run in 512K) which is important to me because I have many TSRs etc.
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Msg 42841 is 05 line(s) on 12/03/89 from ERIC BOHLMAN
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to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: BORLAND
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I suspect the "missing" product you're thinking of is Paradox. Seems that
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they're also supporting Reflex, since they just released a new version.
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All I can think of that they've dropped are Turbo Basic and Turbo Prolog;
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I think the latter just isn't mass-market enough, and the former simply got
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out-positioned by QB.
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Msg 42842 is 03 line(s) on 12/04/89 from BARRY FUERST
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to WARD CHRISTANSON re: WHAT ARE 'Z' FILES?
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What are the files on the Advocate BBS that have a Z in the file type and what
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do I need to unsqueese them? USQ.COM doesn't work. I left some messages
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for you over there. Regards, Barry
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Msg 42843 is 08 line(s) on 12/04/89 from ED FOSTER
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to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/QUATTRO-PRO
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Ward, I mailed my order for Quattro Pro last week. I have been using
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Excel, but mainly because it will read dBASE and Lotus files and write
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a tab-delimited text file. Excel is very capable, but even on a 386 it
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is slower than 1-2-3 on an 8088, at least as far as panning around the
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screen.
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What sold me on Quattro is its VROOM, however they spell it, that
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allows working with a spreadsheet that won't fit entirely into RAM.
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That will be impressive even if it's slow.
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Msg 42844 is 10 line(s) on 12/04/89 from JAMES KARAGANIS
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to ALAN LAYA re: UTILITIES
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Alan,
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You might want to consider the ProBAS series of libraries from
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Hammerly Associates. You can find their full page spread in Byte
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and PC magazine. I understand they have considerable graphics support.
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Their prices are quite reasonable too ($139.00 for the main library).
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Originally, the package was called ADVBAS and was distributed as
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shareware. Eventually it became fairly polished and is now sold
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commercially.
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Thanks,
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Jim
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Msg 42845 is 07 line(s) on 12/04/89 from BILL WOLFF
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to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/QUATTRO-PRO
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I use both AS-EASY-AS and LOTUS V1.0A. Both does graphics and I have used
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LOTUS 2.01 too. And the best deal I believe is AS-EASY-AS. It is fast and
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works even in a 256K envirament (sp?). But since I have 640K on all my
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computers, it doesn't matter much.
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I have heard that QUATTRO-PRO is very good! But what does it offer that
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others doesn't have? <BW>
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Msg 42846 is 04 line(s) on 12/04/89 from BILL WOLFF
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to ALL re: 4DOS AND DOS 4.0
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Can anybody tell me about the shareware version of 4DOS?
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Also can anybody tell me if DOS 4.0 is useful on a XT (V20) laptop? And
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what features it has over DOS 3.3? <BW>
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Msg 42847 is 08 line(s) on 12/04/89 from ERIC BOHLMAN
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to BARRY FUERST re: R/WHAT ARE 'Z' FILES?
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You need UNCR24 to decompress those files. They've been "crunched" which is
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an LZW coding method similar to that used by ARC for MS-DOS machines.
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P.S. BBS etiquette normally dictates that you ask such questions on the BBS
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where the files were found. In particular, the Advocate has lots of CP/M
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users, whereas my understanding is that Ward hasn't been into CP/M for quite
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a few years. He may have invented the BBS concept, but that doesn't
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obligate him to stay on top of each and every development involving BBS systems
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(as if anybody could).
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No msg 42848
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Msg 42849 is 04 line(s) on 12/05/89 from VERNE ARASE
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to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/QUATTRO-PRO
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We ordered an evaluation copy of Quattro-Pro; I'll comment on it after
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I've seen it. Hope you got it on the $99 offer; I'm a tad down on
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Borland as they appear to be pulling out of all but the PC marketplace
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(leaving licenced users on other platforms stranded).
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Msg 42850 is 13 line(s) on 12/05/89 from COLIN SCHROEDER
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to JIM ANDERSON re: R/PC-BASED UNIX OS
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Thanks for the additional info, Jim. Sorry, but I'll have to pass-
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can't afford it. BTW, are you a reseller? If so, I'd advise
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checking out other vendors; there are some which are significantly
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cheaper than SCO, and also more current. I'm looking at ESIX, a
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UNIX System V/3.2 from an Everex subsidiary. The whole works, with
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OS, development tools, and unltd user license. It lists for $825,
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and they'll give me a 30% (!) discount if I 'trade up' from
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Microport UNIX. The only hitch is that if you want the extended
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doc.s you pay an additional $3. After the 30% discount, it still
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comes to a total of about $930. The big issue is performance, and
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comparison tests (at least those sent by ESIX, published in MIPS
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mag.) show that it's quite competitive with other UNIX variants.
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Check it out!
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dup. chars.
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>Function:? |