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Spreadsheet

    09-Oct-91 09:52:04
Sb: #36362-Spreadsheet
Fm: Malcolm O'Brien 76703,4243
To: Rob Salmon 71420,471
Rob, I'd agree that the Amiga now has an excellent spreadsheet program in Professional Calc. I've written the manual for it and have been using the software for a couple of months now. I don't know Wingz so I can't comment on that aspect; but I think you're not giving PCalc enough credit when you say a ProPage-like interface. I feel that ProPage is somewhat anomalous among Amiga apps. (wicked alliteration, sorry <G>) PCalc is much more like a standard Ami interface. And as far as features go: there are more charts than you've stated, user-defined functions, hiding of rows and columns and enough ARexx support to choke a horse! In addition to an ARexx command language that includes everything in the program (and more), there's even a REXX function. This one will run a script each time the sheet is recalculated. You could use this to get something like MAPL to integrate w/PCalc to provide any math routines that PCalc doesn't provide (and it provides LOTS). Try THAT with your Lotus! 😉 I think that a lot of people will be very impressed with it. Malcolm