Want spread sheet program

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Here at my site we used for a short while the 'sc' program distributed over
net.sources a while back. It had some ugly bugs and some serious limitations
that quickly put it onto the shelf.

We recently bought a spreadsheet called 'ViewComp' from the Unisoft company
of New York. It cost us $800 for a binary license for 4.1Bsd. It installed
exactly as their instructions told me to, and worked the first time. It ran
the tutorials exactly as they were documented. Everything in it that I have
used works without bugs. The documentation (marked 'Preliminary' in large
clear letters) puts 99.9999999999999% of Unix documentation to shame (hint
to Unix documentation writers). I no longer know what I did without it.

Our company has been using Supercalc on micros for a while. In comparison with
Supercalc I don't think it is quite as easy to use, but it does have a very
comparable command set and functionality. It uses termcap, so it will work
with any terminal with a minimal set of cursor functions.

There a few things I would like. The documentation has no page numbers or
index (typeset off of Unix, of course). That means I have to thumb a lot to
find something. There are a few missing things that I would like that I have
been told will probably be in the upcoming upgrade. The company is very
quick to responed to comments and questions, and their Hot line people are
Very knowledgeable. I can't recommend this product enough. And for $800,
you really can't lose!

chuck (ucbvax!amd70!packet!cfv)