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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