[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Question on Harvard Graphics program

ebm@ibmarc.uucp (Eli Messinger) (06/27/89)

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I use Harvard Graphics (Software Publishing Corporation,
Mountain View, CA) frequently, and I am generally pleased
with it.  But I am frustrated by my inability to find out
from the documentation--or by fiddling--how to do several
things that users must want to do from time to time.  Any
advice would be appreciated.

Thus, I often want to import, usually via an ASCII file, new
Y-columns into an already existing HG line chart data table, e.g.,
to import Y-columns 3 and 4 to a data able with Y-columns 1 and 2.
Is there some way to do this?  (I know how to import additional
rows but not columns.  It seems incredible that there should
be no way to do that.)

Somewhat similarly, is there any way to import "earlier" rows
into an already existing HG line chart data table?  (I know how
to move rows "down" but not how to import new rows into those
theoretically emptied out.)

Finally, I have been unable to figure out how to combine data in
two already existing HG line chart data tables.  It seems odd that
there is no way to do this, if true.

One way around all this would be to be able to send HG line chart data
tables to a file (I know how to send them to a printer), particularly
if the file were ASCII.  That file could then be loaded to another
program, like Microsoft Word, and edited or added to there.  But I
can't figure out how to do that either.  Nor does the HG documentation
say, so far as I can tell.

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