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Article #39832Re: spreadsheets
From: Bill Silvert
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1989 15:00
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1989 15:00
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In article <20245@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> SHAWL@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>> ... VIP Professional. It's lousy. I hate it. Please don't recommend
>> it. I mean, a piece of software with a list price of 130 quid that can't work
>> with a hard disk?
>YOU ARE WRONG. In spite of its problems, VIP is useful; i use it almost
>daily --- FROM MY HARD DRIVE. It is easy to set up.
I missed the first posting, but VIP works fine with a hard drive.
There are two versions, a Lotus look-a-like and a GEM version.
GEM is a bit slow unless you use a speedup program for fast screen
updates, but I use VIP all the time to handle Lotus files. It's good.
--
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.dal.ca!silvert From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: spreadsheets Summary: VIP is fine Keywords: spreadsheets Message-ID: <1989Dec24.150008.28420@cs.dal.ca> Date: 24 Dec 89 15:00:08 GMT References: <8912210816.AA06247@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <20245@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert) Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography Lines: 18