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From: bartho@obs.unige.ch (PAUL BARTHOLDI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: opus 2.2 remark instalation under GDOS
Message-ID: <357@obs.unige.ch>
Date: 25 Sep 89 10:30:14 GMT
References: <8909221238.AA04128@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <8909221238.AA04128@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, AEG01@DK0RRZK0.BITNET writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>This is a message to Doug Harrison
>              the author of OPUS
> As I am on BITNET I don't know how to reach the author directly.
> 
> I downloaded your Spreadsheet and Charting program from the
> Panarthea archive and instlled it under GDOS. The only GDOS program
> that worked was the AMCGDOS posted by Reschke in Atari-Info number
> 265 or 275 (I have to look up the correct number). Using other GDOS versions
> OPUS could not find the Printer workstation. (I don't know why).

I used an other one (original ?) and had no problem.
 
> Your Program is great.

Yes indeed !
 
> I just have two small comments:
> 
> 1) using your program on an 300 DPI printer, the lines are to faint.
>    I would like to be able to change the thickness of the lines.
>    (specially the axes I would like to have a bit thicker)
> 2) reading in data from a "normal" Textfile
>    I would like to import data from a machine, which can put
>    numeric data into a computer file, so I don't want to
>    type them in again.

I am also very interested to import data from an ascii file used columnwise.
Retyping data is just too error-prone and should be done by the computer.

Thanks for your beautiful job !
                                                Paul Bartholdi.

PS being by now a registered user, i would suggest that importing data files
   could be reserved to those that have payed theire shares ...