rudolph@intelisc.UUCP (David Rudolph) (07/29/88)
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? -- David Rudolph CSnet: rudolph%isc.intel.com