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From: rwk@silver.sbi.com (Richard W. Kreutzer Consultant)
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Subject: DMS for spreadsheets
Date: 3 Oct 92 22:42:54 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Integra Software Corporation

Does anyone know of any good document management systems for 123?  That is, a
way to organize and display/retrieve spreadsheet files with descriptions,
project codes, author, etc.

Thanks,
Dick
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From: pr@praxis.co.uk (Peter Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Subject: Hidden Dialogue in Excel
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:57:59 GMT
Organization: Praxis, Bath, U.K.


I would like to create a dialogue box in Excel 3.0 which prompts for a 
username and password. I cannot find a way to prevent the password 
echoing on the screen.

The minimum I need is for the keystrokes to not appear, ideally I would
like an alternative character to appear as keys are pressed such as
asterisks.

Thanks in advance
       Peter
From: imn_ <Gary Lin <gary@resumix.portal.>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 92 19:21:14 GMT
Subject: qpro 4.0 and qemm 6.01
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Organization:  Resumix Inc.


rowewl@ucunix.san.uc.edu (William L. Rowe) writes:

>I have had a few problems running qpro 4.0 and qemm.  The system appears
>to be very unstable and when I am using large spreadsheets QEMM often
>notifies me that it has a conflict with the program and has to exit to
>dos or reboot.  I was originally using QEMM 6.0 and had the problems.
>Borland told me that it was a problem with QEMM and not their product
>and so I went right out and brought the newest version of QEMM that I
>could find, 6.01, but the problem is still there. I have never had the
>problem with version 3.0 of Qpro and was wondering if anyone else out
>there has had the same problem.  This is a better place for getting help
>that Borland I have found so if there are any ideas please E-mail them
>to me.  Well I am off to redo about 4 hours of work due to this very
>problem, but I will not use version 4.0.  Thanks , Bill Perry

Sorry, but Borland's attitude is "your problem for running QEMM".

Someone was VERY upset at the QPro/Win intro, and asked about Paradox and QEMM
configuration.  He didn't get a satisfactory answer to this either.  Call up
Borland and ask to speak to the QPro product manager and not the support
weenies.  Probably get a better answer (if not a solution).

						- Gary M. Lin
						gary@resumix.portal.com



From: imn_ <John Allen <jallen@oat2.standa>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 00:18:26 GMT
Subject: Lotus is stupid
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Organization:  Standard Insurance Company - Portland Oregon
Keywords:  Quattro Pro Lotus


Thanx again for the insight Mr. Lim, but Lotus has just raised thier
licensing costs.  Check your invoices for a ten user license and the 4 user
upgrade packs.  They have more than doubled.


I forgot to mention a product called Exclaim from QSP,
it is essentially Lotus/Excell/Quattro pro all rolled into
an X interface.  I havent used it but I had used thier previous
Lotus clone called Qcalc which was a Lotus 2.01 clone, it wasnt
bad, it had all the driver support tools for printing and terminals.
 We had migrated from Qcalc on a 3b2 to Lotus on 386 Unix.  I owe this
one to the QSP people to at least mention thier products.  One Lotus Clone
I do not recommend is Twin for Unix - it really sucked!

For those tuning in late we do not necessariliy mean to antagonize
any one vendor about not having a Unix product, but if we could draw
Lotus to reply it would be a weanie roast.

---
Note to hmmmm? forgot his name now, there was a note in my mail
about configuration tools.  Yes, there are a lot of sites who
may not be as technical as ours, but if one considers Unix on a
scale such as ours than having a staff of four people to support
1200 users is much better investment that the 50 it takes to support
our MVS boxes for the same number of users.  And since I am on
the net it makes it easier for those who dont have great unix skills
to hire me for some of those $$$$$ things.

Ok ill shut up for a few days now.


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Network Services                               Telephone: (503) 243-6189
Standard Insurance, Portland Oregon                  FAX: (503) 321-3313



Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
From: achobbs@eos.ncsu.edu (ASHTON CALDWELL HOBBS)
Subject: ********
Originator: achobbs@c00066-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: achobbs@eos.ncsu.edu (ASHTON CALDWELL HOBBS)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:29:35 GMT


Does anyone out there have any Excel (Windows) macros that I could possibly use.
I am learning to program Excel macros and would like some example to go by.
Will trade IBM/Windows shareware for any macros you can give.
Ashton Hobbs
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
From: moore@iastate.edu (Brian J Moore)
Subject: Help with ANOVA in Excel
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:52:08 GMT

I need help with ANOVA in Excel, or advice.  I have to groups, both in
separate blocks on the spreadsheet.  In order to run ANOVA, the block
needs to be contiguous and I don't want to combine them.  Is there any
simple way to do this without lumping the two groups together?

Thanks,
Brian

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From: aar_osman@gsbvxb.uchicago.edu
Subject: [INFO] New Report on Intellectual Property/Software
Organization: ^?^?^?^?
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 16:42:05 GMT

For all interested, there is a new report from the Office of Technology
Assessment, U.S. Congress:

	Finding a Balance: Computer Software, Intellectual Property
	  and the Challenge of Technological Change.

	It can be ordered from the U.S. Govt Printing Office
	by Visa/MasterCard ($11 and no sales tax). Tel: 202-738-3238
	or from your local GPO Bookstore.

Excellent background on the historical and legal issues germane to this
discussion.


/Osman


Newsgroups: comp.patents
From: Carl Oppedahl <0001811496@mcimail.com>
Subject: Re: [REQUEST] Supreme Court cases
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 04:13:00 GMT

Boris Pevzner (pevzner@athena.mit.edu) writes:
 
>Could please someone point me to a source
>listing/discussing all Supreme Court decisions to date
>pertaining to software patent/copyright matters?
 
One problem is that since 1982 the U.S. Supreme Court has been
notably silent, deferring to the Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit.  So for important patent decisions since 1982 one must 
read Federal Circuit cases.  For patents, it is simply incomplete
if one limits oneself to reading Supreme Court cases.
 
>I realize that our local (Boston) public library
>will definitely have this, and I will certainly go there,
>unless some less-time-consuming (preferably, on-line) 
>resource is suggested.
 
I think most people who want to save time and read the right cases
would not be well served reading individual Supreme Court cases
one by one.  Instead, it pays to find a good treatise or looseleaf
service and read cases and synopses there.
 
I don't know how the BPL is for intellectual property treatises 
and looseleaf services, but it would not hurt to look.  Examples of 
treatises are Nimmer on Copyright, Deller's Walker on Patents, 
Chisum on Patents, and McCarthy on Trademarks.  An example of a looseleaf
service is the BNA Patent, Copyright, Trademark Journal.
 
If the goal is really to read the full text of all the opinions,
I would suggest the United States Patent Quarterly, a set of several
hundred volumes covering all significant intellectual property
cases in the United States in the full text.  It includes digests that
can be helpful to one seeking cases on particular topics.
 
Online, one way to be able to browse the full text of intellectual
property cases is Lexis, in the Patent, Copyright, and Trademark
libraries.  Lexis is very expensive except that most law students
can get it for free while in law school.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Carl Oppedahl
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY  10112-0228

Newsgroups: comp.patents
From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
Subject: [REQUEST] RSA claims 33 and 37 of U.S. patent 4,405,829
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:22:58 GMT


The patent contains as claim 33:

	In a communication system an encoding means for transforming a
	transmit message word signal M to a ciphertext word signal C
	where M corresponds to a number representative of a message and

		0 <= M <= n-1

	where n is a composite number and where C corresponds to a number
	representative of an enciphered form of said message and corresponds
	to

		C = a[e]*M^e + a[e-1]*M^(e-1) + ... a[0](mod n)

	where e and a[e], a[e-1], ... a[0] are numbers.

Claim 37 is nearly identical except that cryptographic use is specifically
claimed.

Thus it appears that any cryptographic method using a polynomial modulo
a composite infringes.  I am seeking opinions, particularly from any
legal experts that may read this as to whether this claim which essentially
claims the use of a single mathematical formula is defensable?

Further I would like to know if anyone is aware of any prior art (filing
was Dec. 14, 1977) using a polynomial as simple as C = M^2(mod n) even that 
would invalidate this claim.

Thanks,

Bob
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Newsgroups: comp.patents
From: pevzner@athena.mit.edu (Boris Pevzner)
Subject: [REQUEST] U.S. Supreme Court decisions on software patent/copyright
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 20:47:45 GMT
Keywords: supreme court software patent copyright
X-Full-Sender-Address: @bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU:news@bloom-picayune.mit.edu


Dear Netters,

Could please someone point me to a source
listing/discussing all Supreme Court decisions to date
pertaining to software patent/copyright matters?

I realize that our local (Boston) public library
will definitely have this, and I will certainly go there,
unless some less-time-consuming (preferably, on-line) 
resource is suggested.

Thank you very much,


-Boris Pevzner
 0-700-HI-BORIS from AT&T Intelligent Network

[mod- I know Dan once posted a long list of cases on this matter and
there have been a few articles on this matter, 
you might try looking at the info available via ftp,
however as the archives now have over a thousand articles, you will
have to wait until the production of my forthcoming Internet Christmas
Special Book (where I intend to go through all the comp.patents
articles and collate them in to a best of book available via ftp).
Unfortunately, at the moment I am sitting some patent examinations and
time is tight... :-( ]
From: ce062@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joel B Stuckey)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: MAC TEXT EDITOR
Date: 30 Sep 1992 11:23:08 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Distribution: inet
Reply-To: ce062@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joel B Stuckey)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


  I am looking for some shareware that can generate
tests randomly from strings of text, for the Mac.
Thanks
-- 
Joel B Stuckey     STUCKE98@SNYBUFVA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU
                   CIS 73177,3460
                   Buffalo State College, Buffalo NY
From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: <CR> in VI macros
Date: 7 Oct 92 01:09:20 GMT
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ

mschee@bcarh600.bnr.ca (Michael SamChee)
writes on comp.editors:

)Hi,
)
)Example
)-------
)- first, edit a file: "vi file1"
)- then from within file1, edit another file: ":!vi file2"  
)
)Problem
)-------
)Write a macro that would "pop" the user from file2 back to file1
)in *one* keystroke.

What is it that ":e file1" and ":e#" don't do as opposed to spawning a
process because of which you have lost access to the named buffers,
search words etc... The answer is really in the manual. Ofcourse you
can write macros like: 

map #1 :e file1^M
map #2 :e#^M

^M = Ctrl-V and then a Ctrl-M

mapping them to Function keys.. There is a lot to gain by moving
around files using ':e' or ':n'.

I realise that vi manual may be inadequate. But try looking for the
reference card and detailed manuals in the vi archives for which Ove 
Ruben Olsen posts a note on comp.editors every so often.

)Michael.

Sridhar.
Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber)
Subject: Re: VI for PCs
Keywords: VI, editor, PC, IBM
Organization: (n.) Body of persons united for a specific purpose.
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 13:22:29 GMT

In article <1992Sep21.095136.5311@cadlab.sublink.org> albani@cadlab.sublink.org (Lanfranco Albani) writes:
>ejohnfel@csws17.ic.sunysb.edu writes:
>
>:	Needed, DESPARATELY, VI for the PC. Source or binary, preferably
>:binary. If anyone knows the whereabouts of the source, please let me know.
>
>You can get the MKS Toolkit, which gets you a 'standard' vi plus
>a lot of useful unix tools (sed, awk, korn-shell, dc, etc.) for
>about $250.
>
>Or get the sources of Elvis (latest release 1.6), and compile!


Or get Elvis already compiled!
SIMTEL20 and mirrors:

PD1:<MSDOS.EDITOR>ELV16EXE.ZIP

One of the good things about it (not the only one) is that
it costs $250 less than the MKS Toolkit.  :-)


					Glauber

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Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: jameson@cal.isac.ca (Kevin Jameson)
Subject: Stanford(?) Luxor(?) window editor
Reply-To: jameson@cal.isac.ca (Kevin Jameson)
Organization: y
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 13:46:05 GMT

Did anyone save the posting in comp.windows.x that announced the
X-windowed editor made by the Stanford software development group?
The editor was apparently derived from an early version of GNU Emacs
19.

If you saved the article (it was posted about a month ago, apparently),
would you please mail me a copy?

Thanks
  Kevin (jameson@cal.isac.ca)

Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian)
Subject: Re: Writing a "block" of lines to another file
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 12:41:44 GMT

In article <Bv6n4M.Dox@encore.com> mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer) writes:
>I'd like to be able to write a "block" of lines to a file, without having to
>count the lines, or get the start & end loine number.  Can I use the temp
>buffers something like:
>
>mx
>y'x
>write x to file

Almost right.  Mark the first line of the block, say, mx.  Move to
the last line of the block and do any of:
:'x,.w file         [if writing to a new file]
or
:'x,.w! file        [if re-writing an existing file]
or
:'x,.w >> file      [if appending to an existing file]
as necessary.

--


Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: brandy@tramp.Colorado.EDU (BRANDAUER CARL M)
Subject: Re: UNIX COMMAND IN VI SESSION.
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 21:19:29 GMT

hamjavar@carina.unm.edu (Farid Hamjavar) writes:


>Hello : 				OCT-01-92

>VI allows you to execute UNIX commands in a VI session.
>How can I enter AT THE CURSER, the output of the  UNIX's  "date" command ?

:.r !date
From: gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Viewing (only) file in Xywrite
Date: 30 Sep 92 15:37:01 GMT
Reply-To: gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: (n.) Body of persons united for a specific purpose.

Hi, Xywriters

	I once discovered an undocumented command in Xywrite
(i have version 3.53, i think) that calls a file for viewing
only (no editing allowed). I can't remember what it was.
Does anybody know what it is? Thank you.

						Glauber


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Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: mch@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson)
Subject: Re: damn tabs
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Surrey, British Columbia, CANADA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:09:39 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.040531.25139@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> ray@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Ray Lauff) writes:
>Hello
>   I hate the way vi places tabs in the file instead of spaces.
>Don't get me wrong - the Autoindent feature is very spiffy -- 
>but I hate the <tab> characters it leaves behind.  
>
>   Right now I use the Unix "expand" command to remove all the
>tabs, but it is a tedious process.  Is there a way to request
>vi to replace the tabs with spaces before it saves the file?
Is
1G!Gexpand -4
really all that tedious (of course replace -4 with your favourite width)?

Mark
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Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: srikant@skorpio.usask.ca (Srikant Subramaniam)
Subject: Getting started on vi - Any pointers ?
Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 20:56:06 GMT

Hello net.world:

Is there a  definitive reference book on vi ? I would like to be able to use the
full capabilities of vi (macros, et al ...). Could somebody give me some info?

Thanks,
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Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: alainc@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Alain Caron)
Subject: Re: EMACS LOGO
Reply-To: alainc@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Alain Caron)
Organization: Bell Northern Research Montreal, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 15:00:08 GMT

In article <1a8a0nINN7en@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Wright) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> Is there a way to avoid the logo when emacs starts up? At 2400 baud
|> it takes a while to get of the damn thing. And, by the way, how would
|> one automatically start up emacs in Dired mode?
|> 
|> 
|> ---Thanks
|> -- 

I know 2 ways to start emacs in dired mode:

1) in the shell, issue the command emacs DIR where DIR is a directory instead of a regular file.

2) start emacs with no parameters and include the following in your .emacs file:

(dired)

-- 
"The time of day is no secret, but Apple still doesn't
 deserve the time of day." - RMS

Alain Caron
Bell-Northern Research, Montreal, Canada
alainc@bnrmtl.bnr.ca
From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: damn tabs
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:21:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Oct6.162134.29138
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

From the keyboard of lew@bnr.ca (Pierre LEWis):
:> I never understand why people object to tabs apart from when perverts
:> decide to treat them as other than every 8th position.

Ditto.

:I object to them simply because perverts are a fact of life.  Many folks
:here (and elsewhere) use them to mean 2-4 spaces (one indentation level), and
:our printer setup assumes, by default, that they mean 3!  

Your printer is broken.  Have it fixed.

--tom
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              A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: nh@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (nicholas.hounsome)
Subject: Re: UNIX COMMAND IN VI SESSION.
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 07:33:09 GMT

From article <=1=p9lb@lynx.unm.edu>, by hamjavar@carina.unm.edu (Farid Hamjavar):
> 
> Hello : 				OCT-01-92
> 
> VI allows you to execute UNIX commands in a VI session.
> How can I enter AT THE CURSER, the output of the  UNIX's  "date" command ?
> 

:map ^X i^M^[:r!date^MddpkkJJ

This will not work correctly at the end of a line because of the two joins.

or

:map ^X ma:r!date^Mj0d$`apmajdd`a

This uses d$ to delete to the end of the line but not the newline and
uses the little known but useful backquote which puts you at the marked
character position.

There is no way to read in directly at the cursor position because
the read has to be done in ex line editor mode which does not understand
cursor position (or `).

> 
> 
> ThankS a lot.
> Farid Hamjavar
> hamjavar@carina.unm.edu

Nic Hounsome
From: ray@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Ray Lauff)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: damn tabs
Date: 6 Oct 92 04:05:31 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Hello
   I hate the way vi places tabs in the file instead of spaces.
Don't get me wrong - the Autoindent feature is very spiffy -- 
but I hate the <tab> characters it leaves behind.  

   Right now I use the Unix "expand" command to remove all the
tabs, but it is a tedious process.  Is there a way to request
vi to replace the tabs with spaces before it saves the file?

    Any help appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Ray.
ray@astro.temple.edu
From: yan@integ.frec.bull.fr (Yves A. Nicollet)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Writing a "block" of lines to another file
Date: 5 Oct 92 12:13:42 GMT
Reply-To: Y.A.Nicollet@frec.bull.fr
Organization: Bull (UMSO/Echirolles)

In article <1992Sep26.124144.6699@umbc3.umbc.edu>, rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian) writes:
>In article <Bv6n4M.Dox@encore.com> mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer) writes:
>>I'd like to be able to write a "block" of lines to a file, without having to
>>count the lines, or get the start & end loine number.  Can I use the temp
>>buffers something like:
>>
>>mx
>>y'x
>>write x to file
>
>Almost right.  Mark the first line of the block, say, mx.  Move to
>the last line of the block and do any of:
>:'x,.w file         [if writing to a new file]
>or
>:'x,.w! file        [if re-writing an existing file]
>or
>:'x,.w >> file      [if appending to an existing file]
>as necessary.

And if you wanted to move lines from a file to another file you would like
then to edit, you could:

go to the 1st line and type
mx                 [to mark the beginning of the block]
go to the last line and type
"xy'x              [to yank from the mark x till the current line into buffer x]
go to the other file by typing
:e# (or :e file)
go to where you want to put the block and type
"xp                [to append the buffer]
or
"xP                [to insert the buffer]

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