michael@otago.ac.nz (06/21/91)
One of our hard disks came with a shareware spreadsheet called BiPlane. It looks not bad, although the DA version doesn't seem to like my machine. Which is perhaps not surprising as I see its dated June 1988. Does anyone know if there are later versions and if the address given for the author is still valid? We are probably going to want to send him money.... Michael(tm) Hamel, Computing Services Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand SCAMBLESBY (n.) A small dog which resembles a throw-rug and appears to be dead.
Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) (06/24/91)
michael@otago.ac.nz writes:
-> One of our hard disks came with a shareware spreadsheet called
-> BiPlane. It looks not bad, although the DA version doesn't seem
-> to like my machine. Which is perhaps not surprising as I see
-> its dated June 1988. Does anyone know if there are later versions
-> and if the address given for the author is still valid? We are
-> probably going to want to send him money....
Well, I could _swear_ that MacWEEK made reference to the spreadsheet and the company that makes it, in reference to the fact that it's been improved and whatnot, but I can't find the article. It wasn't too long ago...
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INET: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORGsandy@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (& Wise) (06/27/91)
BiPlane 2.0 is the current version. I recieved a copy in the mail as
a Apple Users Group Contact just last week, along with a demo of the
companies new product, a "spreadsheet compiler."
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\/\/\ This situation calls for large amounts of unadulterated CHOCOLATE! /\/\/\cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Carl J.M. Alexander) (06/28/91)
There's a very positive short review of BiPlane 2.0 by Steven Bobker in the current (7/91) issue of Computer Shopper (yes, that's what I said), on page 702. On account of this review, I downloaded BiPlane from sumex. The version I found there, unfortunately, has given me a minor problem which has kept me from further exploring the program: it creates documents with no right edge. I'm serious: the window continues off the right side of the screen. I grab the title bar and move the window to the left. Again, and again--I pulled the window left until I got to the last column in the spreadsheet, then beyond it. I have no reason to believe that this window does not extend infinitely to the right--although it has left, top, and bottom edges. I'm running System 7 on an SE/30 with no unusual inits. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know whether 2.0a is the most recent version of BiPlane? I'd really like to be able to give this program a try. --Carl Alexander | BCS*Mac News Editor, The Active Window | The Boston Computer Society cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu | Macintosh Users Group