iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) (06/28/91)
If you intend to purchase and/or use *, be aware that WingZ V1.1a becomes VERY flaky if you paste ASCII data into it. In fact, I regularly get program crashes. WingZ is much more reliable if you use the "open" command from the menu. SoftPC V2.0 cannot handle EGA or CGA high-res graphics produced by Minitab, which uses the popular Halo graphics libraries. Minitab simply gives an error, which translates into "Unimplemented graphics Function." This is a real pity; I bought SoftPC to run Minitab (one of my favorite quick-and-dirty statistics packages). Communicae the new version will have a improved Tektronic emulation, that can handle SAS's perverse graphics plot commands. SAS relies on a really obscure feature. Framemaker V2.0d is incapable of significantly enlarging and reducing mathematical formulas. Integral signs and other mathematical symbols do not scale properly with reduction/enlargements. Also, invisible color still shines through on occasions; this is easily reproducible, but I have not found a common pattern. Browser (V2.1) when the browser reappears because a different application is closed, it simply does not function (try to hide it by clicking on hide). Clicking on another window, clicking on the icon cube (which makes the browser reappear), then clicking on hide, works. Powerstep I really like this product. Unfortunately, it is no longer produced. One of its major advantages is that you can read in a Unix tab-separated ascii database, and it will not change the format of integers to real.2 (unlike WingZ). So, it can be used as a standard Unix tool. /ivo welch ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu
cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Charles Herrick) (06/28/91)
In article <1991Jun27.181538.7578@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes:
If you intend to purchase and/or use *, be aware that
SoftPC V2.0 cannot handle EGA or CGA high-res graphics produced by
Minitab, which uses the popular Halo graphics libraries. Minitab
simply gives an error, which translates into
"Unimplemented graphics Function." This is a real pity; I bought
SoftPC to run Minitab (one of my favorite quick-and-dirty statistics
packages).
It is unfortunate that your favorite app doesn't run under SoftPC. It
is also true that PC graphics is a very difficult swamp to traverse
for PC emulators. As an example, PC apps can bypass MS-DOS and do
nasty things directly with video RAM, so it is possible to write PC
stuff that breaks under DOS emulators.
I'm certain it's not much consolation, but this is a caveat emptor
situation, both on the PC app side and the PC emulator side. I'd
imagine the SoftPC folks would like to hear about it.
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"I am walking on the wire
and the wire is what the whole thing is about."
-- John Stewart