🚀 go-pugleaf

OK, so I finally got sick of waiting 10 minutes for Cricket Graph to open my
file of 500 points, or to do any large pasting operation.  I also thought a
real spreadsheet could be useful at times in combo with a graphing program.
I decided to try Excel, which I was told had good charting capabilities.
Got a copy to play around with for a few days (version 1.04).  Seemed pretty
good, much faster, until I tried my 500 point graph.  It doesn't want to do
more than about 100 points.  I don't think it's out of memory or anything
(1M mac plus, unifinder), it just tells me "Too many data
points."  Is this just some kind of hard limit -- no matter how much memory
is available, it won't do more than 100 points?  If so, is there any
improvement in more recent versions?  Otherwise, does a graphing program
exist with the following features:

 - able to handle a large number (500-1000) of points quickly
	["Faster than a speeding bullet..."]

 - reasonably powerful spreadsheet (not the psuedo-pspreadsheet of Cricket)
	["More powerful than a locomotive..."]

 - connection between data and graph (i.e. changing data changes the graph,
	like in Excel, unlike in Cricket)
	["Able to leap ...", well, you get the picture]


My one other gripe about Excel is that the only log-log plot it can do is as
a scatter-plot.  I can't find any way to do a line plot with log-log scales.
Am I missing anything?




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David Rudolph           CSnet: rudolph%isc.intel.com