We're in the process of getting a spreadsheet for the VAX. There's two in
contention for our hard earned dollars, so the writers have allowed us a
trial run of their product for about 30 days. The first of the two, FLOW_CALC
has arrived and is now installed on Kim. The documentation that accompanied
this product sucks. There is barely a paragraph on each command and no examples
at all in it. I guess that they assume you'll use the online help stuff which
there is an awful lot of to get you out of trouble. There are two demo programs
with it, FCINTRO and FCTUTOR which you can run on a VT100 or CIT-101. FCTUTOR
is very good, I think you'll get a kick out of it. Please send comments to this
address. The next time you login or RESTART you can type:

	$ FCTUTOR	!to run the tutorial
	$ FCINTRO	!to run the introduction
	$ FCALC your_file !to make your own sheet	

Have fun.

ds

The other spreadsheet that I mentioned the other day has been installed. Its
called Graphic Outlook and can be started with:

	$ GRO your_filename

There's a couple of demo packages that you can run to see how it works:

	$ GRO/COM=GRLOOKDIR:GRAPHMW	!graphics on a VT125
	$ GRO/COM=GRLOOKDIR:LOWRESGR	!graphics on a VT100 (or CIT101)
	$ GRO/COM=GRLOOKDIR:ITRATE	!iteration to a goal demo

In order to display graphics, they recommend that your terminal be set:

	$ SET TERM/NOWRAP/FORM/NOBROAD

There's also some tutorials:

	$ GRO/COM=GRLOOKDIR:BRIEF	!short lesson
	$ GRO/COM=GRLOOKDIR:TUTOR1	!more extensive
	$ GRO/COM=GRLOOKDIR:TUTOR2	!"Building a worksheet"

There is a manual with this one that is quite reasonable, certainly much better
than FlowCalc's manual.