Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!cui!ugun2b!ugobs!bartho 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 Lines: 35 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 ...