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Thomas Vandahl wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 18:52:16 -0800, Duane Bozarth wrote:
> > Great???? Come on, now!!!! Works is a joke for anything except small text
> > documents and the capabilities compared to Excel of the spreadsheet are
> > miniscule....e.g, try putting a graphic image in a Works document....
> Did it. What now? Does your Works have problems with graphics?

Yeah, it absolutely kills it from a refresh standpoint.....appears to repaint
entire screen completely for each line move even for paging and multiple line
downs....so slow I just gave up after a few minutes of frustration..

Its user interface is also poor in my view...the outline of the paper is drawn on
top of the first character in a line so that an "I" or "l" is invisible...I've
fixed a lot of "iin"s, etc., because of that....table dialog is very inflexible
or difficult to interpret how to use....I never was able to figure out how to
change many properties, etc.  "Save As" dialog wipes text typed for file name if
then select directory for which to store the file..."Open" refused to read a html
file as text, gave no message, and closed the open window so had to go all the
way back to try to open another file.....I could go on and on....

> BTW: rr wrote about a great PIM on which I have to agree.

Could be, I haven't tried it yet

> > On the real downside, drivers are difficult to get for many devices (see
> > complaints about HP Deskjet printers for one simple example) and
> > compatability with MS shops is a problem for many....
> I agree on the latter. But I don't think that drivers are *that* difficult
> to get. As for the Deskjets: There are special drivers available for Canon
> and Epson, so buy these.

But how many people already have Deskjets??  And they are not the only example by
any stretch...

> > What substitutes (equivalently) for AutoCad, Matlab, TecPlot, layout design
> > tools, graphics apps for scientific presentation/visualization, ....???
> I use Euler as a Matlab substitute, it is free. The new Gnuplot version
> has everything and the kitchen sink with respect to scientific graphing.
> Free, too. There ist BlueCAD, PJ2CAD and Microstation 95 for the AutoCAD
> substitution.

And I lose 15 years of Matlab .m files, and nearly that many of TecPlot
macros....or, as I choose (so far), stay with either the DOS or W3.1 versions
while (Matlab, particularly) introduces wonderful new extensions that won't work
under V4.x.....

I wasn't able to get Gnuplot to work in my earlier attempts and TecPlot was so
familiar I didn't try to much more.  I may have to try again.

> > Mathematica or Maple are alternatives in some ways, but extremely expensive
> > compared to capable alternatives in Windows world...
> What is as capable as Mathematica?
>

Good point....maybe S. Hawking on a good day????

> Bye Thomas.
> --
> Thomas Vandahl [Team OS/2 #505]   Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
> Thomas.Vandahl@E-Technik.TU-Ilmenau.DE   http://www.rz.tu-ilmenau.de/~os2/