karl@spruce.gsfc.nasa.gov (karl on spruce) (04/22/89)
> Does anybody know of a full-featured spreadsheet that runs on SUN 3/??
Depends on what you mean by "full-featured". I'm using 20/20 from Access
Technology - it seems to offer most of what 1-2-3 does. There is a GSA
price. Call Bob Kamacho, (508) 655-9191 x322. You can probably talk him
into sending you a free demo tape. Another aggressively marketed one is
Q-Calc from Unipress, 1-800-222-0550. None of the packages I looked at
had very good graphics; 20/20's is acceptable working-quality.
Karl Anderson
karl@spruce.gsfc.nasa.gov
Disclaimer: my only association with any software vendor is as a customer.wyle@uunet.uu.net (Mitchell Wyle) (04/25/89)
Wake up and smell the coffee!!****
I just installed sc 6.1 from comp.sources.unix as well as a patch from
comp.sources.d and found out sc now has a conversion program which
successfully converted some mac Excel spreadsheets to sc form. It doesn't
have graphics (pie charts, bar charts, etc.) which I sorely miss, but for
tables, calculations, it's better than 1-2-3*, and almost as good as
Excel**.
I massage the data and send them through graph(1) and plot(1) to get bar
and line charts, but I'd appreciate someone's telling us whence a better,
"real" product is available.
In keeping with the UNIX*** traditional toolbox methods, someone should
cobble up a set of awk scripts or some C code to massage sc files to get
plot(5) data for pie and bar charts. Any takers?
BTW: The replies to my own sunspots query about spreadsheets was
underwhelming :-(. I hope Mr. Hanscom has more luck and tells us
about replies from Catalyst vendors :-).
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** Excel is a trademark of Microsoft corporation
*** UNIX is a trademark of AT&T
**** "Wake up and smell the coffee" is copyright (C) 1989 by Mitchell Wyle
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-Mitchell F. Wyle wyle@ethz.uucp
Institut fuer Informationssysteme wyle@inf.ethz.ch
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[[ I have in my hot little hands (too much TeX hacking, I guess) a
business reply card from Uniplex that advertises a bunch of "business"
software, including, *ta da*, a "spreadsheet". I have no further
information except for their address (I haven't sent the card in yet):
Uniplex, ATTN. Marketing Department, 150 West Carpenter Freeway,
Inving TX 75039--9958. Phnum is 1-800-356-8063*****. --wnl
***** 800 numbers don't work outside the U.S. ]]