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From: jean@cse.ucsc.edu (Jean McKnight)
Newsgroups: comp.doc.techreports
Subject: UCSC TR: Wave Spreading Evaluation of Interconnect Systems
Date: 9 Nov 1992 22:42:22 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
NNTP-Posting-Host: oak.ucsc.edu
Keywords: scattering parameter, multiport component, multiport
Originator: golding@oak

          University of California at Santa Cruz
Baskin Center for Computer Engineering and Information Sciences 

The following technical report is available electronically or as
a paper copy.  Instructions for getting either follow the abstract.

UCSC-CRL-92-40   (available electronically, as ucsc-crl-92-42.tar.Z)
WAVE SPREADING EVALUATION OF INTERCONNECT SYSTEMS
Haifang Liao and Wayne Wei-Ming Dai
October 1992, 19 pages (paper copy $5.00)

Abstract:  With continual progress in integrated circuit processing,
operating speeds and new technologies are emerging.  The accurate high
frequency analysis is needed to design the high performance system.
This paper derives general multiport interconnect constraints and
presents a new approach -- Wave Spreading Evaluation (WSE) which uses
S-parameters based network techniques to analyze coupled, multiconductor,
high speed analog and digital integrated circuit interconnect systems.
WSE is based on the spreading process of voltage waves, the input sources
are transformed into initial spreading waves.  The spreading process is
independent of input sources, and every step of wave spreading meets the
constraints of KCL and KVL, the convergence condition is always met for
passives network.  The continual spreading of voltage waves will create
accurate results.
Keywords:  scattering parameter, multiport component, multiport
interconnect node, wave spreading.


This technical report is available electronically through either 
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1.  through anonymous ftp from ftp.cse.ucsc.edu, in /pub/tr. Log in 
    as "anonymous", use your email address as your password, specify 
    "binary" before getting the file.  Uncompress and un-tar before printing.

2.  by mail to automatic mail server rnalib@ftp.cse.ucsc.edu.
    Put this command on the subject line or in the body of the message:
	@@ send ucsc-crl-92-40.tar.Z from tr
    To get the index or abstract list:
	@@ send INDEX from tr
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    To get the list of the tr directory:
	@@ list tr
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From: jean@cse.ucsc.edu (Jean McKnight)
Newsgroups: comp.doc.techreports
Subject: UCSC revised TR: Sorting and Searching with a Faulty Comparison Oracle
Date: 9 Nov 1992 23:10:29 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
NNTP-Posting-Host: oak.ucsc.edu
Originator: golding@oak

          University of California at Santa Cruz
Baskin Center for Computer Engineering and Information Sciences 

The following technical report is available electronically or as
a paper copy.  Instructions for getting either follow the abstract.


UCSC-CRL-92-15  (available electronically as ucsc-crl-92-15.ps.Z)
SORTING AND SEARCHING WITH A FAULTY COMPARISON ORACLE
Philip M. Long
May 1992, revised November 1992, 6 pages (paper copy $5.00)

Abstract:  We study sorting and searching using a comparison oracle that
``lies.'' First, we prove that an algorithm of Rivest, Meyer, Kleitman,
Winklmann and Spencer for searching in an n-element list using a
comparison oracle that lies E times requires at most O(log n + E)
comparisons, improving the best previously known bound of
log n + E log log n + O(E log E).  A lower bound, easily obtained from
their results, establishes that the number of comparisons used by their
algorithm is within a constant factor of optimal.
     We apply their search algorithm to obtain an algorithm for sorting
an n element list with E lies that requires at most O(n log n + En)
comparisons, improving on the algorithm of Lakshmanan, Ravikumar and
Ganesan, which required at most O(n log n + En + E^2) comparisons.  A
lower bound proved by Lakshmanan, Ravikumar and Ganesan establishes that
the number of comparisons used by our sorting algorithm is optimal to
within a constant factor.


This technical report is available electronically through either 
of the following methods:
1.  through anonymous ftp from ftp.cse.ucsc.edu, in /pub/tr. Log in 
    as "anonymous", use your email address as your password, specify 
    "binary" before getting the file.  Uncompress before printing.
2.  by mail to automatic mail server rnalib@ftp.cse.ucsc.edu.
    Put this command on the subject line or in the body of the message:
	@@ send ucsc-crl-92-15.ps.Z from tr
    To get the index or abstract list:
	@@ send INDEX from tr
	@@ send ABSTRACTS.1992 from tr
    To get the list of the tr directory:
	@@ list tr
    To get the list of commands and their syntax:
	@@ help commands

Order paper copies from:  Technical Library, Baskin Center for Computer 
Engineering & Information Sciences, UCSC, Santa Cruz  CA  95064.
Purchase orders are not accepted.  Checks or money orders must be
for U.S. dollars, payable through a U.S. bank, and made out to 
"UC Regents".

Questions:  jean@cse.ucsc.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
From: mmp@farina.id.macsch.com (Marc M. Pack)
Subject: Spreadsheet libraries/widgets for software development?
Organization: MacNeal-Schwendler Corp.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 23:31:42 GMT


I'm working on an engineering program that operates under UNIX and X-Windows
on about a half-dozen popular platforms.  For the newest version, I've been
given the task of investigating the possibility of adding some kind of
spreadsheet capability.  It would be used for a variety of editing and
display tasks.  Optimally, I would like to find some third-party software
that can be linked into the main program, and could transfer data back
and forth in a straightforward manner.  I suppose some kind of X widget
spreadsheet might also work.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Marc Pack
mmp@macsch.com
(213)259-3845
From: qqc@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Dm Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Subject: Re: Spreadsheet compiler still available?
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:25:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: mentor.BxAyxs.7u1
Organization: Purdue University

In article <1992Nov4.222701.26288@syacus.acus.oz.au> steven@syacus.acus.oz.au (Steven Malikoff) writes:
>Dear Internoids,
>	Forgive me as I'm sure this question is in this group's FAQ (I've just
>dropped in on this newsgroup), but I would like some information on whether
>spreadsheet compilers are still available.
>	I have nothing to do with spreadsheets myself, but my father has
>written a fairly largeish model with 123 v2.2. He'd like to be able to produce
>a standalone product for sale. I seem to recall years ago there were 123
>compilers called the 'Baler' and 'Liberty' (?). Are these still used? I also
>suspect that there are no shareware or PD equivalents, but anything would be
>of interest!
>
>Thankyou for any help,
>
>Steven Malikoff.
>steven@syacus.acus.oz.au

Indeed BALER (TM) is still a very active product.  I'm a satisfied user.
It moved a few years ago from our hometown (Lafayette, IN) to near Chicago,
but they still give me adequate phone support when I need it (which is 
seldom).  Their address is :
Baler Software Corp.
1400 Hicks Road
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
phone 708-506-9700
tech support is -1770
fax is -1808

Their products now include BALER XE, which is for those who need support for
addin things, like C code, etc. 

I think the regular product is version 6.  I bought XE but really use my
version 5.1.  The thing gets better, but also bigger, and 5.1 has a smaller
runtime that suits me.

It works on LOTUS and LOTUS alick products.  It bales quickly.  Distribution
of your baled work with the runtime is freely allowed.

It allows making your program look like a program, not a spreadsheet, with
all kinds of fancy pulldown or popup menus if you like.

It provides security.  I got it so my users don't HAVE to have the same
spreadsheet at me, and so I have full control over what they may do.


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Dale M. Forsyth |  Assoc. Prof. | Purdue University Animal Sciences
qqc@mace.cc.purdue.edu | phone 49-44841 | campus address 2-111 Lilly
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Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
From: willis@eos.ncsu.edu (Dr. William E. Willis)
Subject: Re: Spreadsheet libraries/widgets for software development?
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 02:53:29 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.233142.28407@draco.macsch.com> mmp@farina.id.macsch.com (Marc M. Pack) writes:
>
>I'm working on an engineering program that operates under UNIX and X-Windows
>on about a half-dozen popular platforms.  For the newest version, I've been
>given the task of investigating the possibility of adding some kind of
>spreadsheet capability.  It would be used for a variety of editing and
>display tasks.  Optimally, I would like to find some third-party software
>that can be linked into the main program, and could transfer data back
>and forth in a straightforward manner.  I suppose some kind of X widget
>spreadsheet might also work.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
>Marc Pack
>mmp@macsch.com
>(213)259-3845

Check out the Xess spread sheet from Applied Information Systems in
Chapel Hill North Carolina. It has extensive general spread sheet
capabilities plus a complete API through which other programs may be
attached. The other programs may even run on other platforms in your
network such as a Cray Y/MP.

Applied Information Systems
1 (800) 334-5510

Bill Willis

Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
From: fmn@nevada.edu (FRANK NEEDHAM)
Subject: <<<<Spreadsheet Faq for Unix???>>>>>
Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Services
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:05:01 GMT


Hi,

Does there exist a spreadsheet faq for the unix- based pc?
If so, could someone please tell me where to find it?

thanks,
-frank
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
From: joelsp@microsoft.com (Joel Spolsky)
Subject: Re: Greek alphabet in Excel 4.0
Date: 10 Nov 92 01:45:14 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <..> Timo Sallinen (tisalli@sara.cc.utu.fi) writes:
>Is it possible to use Greek alphabet in Excel 4.0? I know that it's possible to
>write them alone in one cell, but what I need is to use to different fonts in
>the same cell in order to write such things as alpha-particle, gamma-globulin,
>etc. I have tried to import such texts from WP for Windows and Word, but the
>Greek letters just seem to vanish somewhere. Anyone have any ideas how to do
>this?


You are probably using the greek letters from the Symbol font.
Unfortunately, Excel doesn't allow multiple fonts in the same cell. The
best workaround is to create a text box the size of the cell, because
text boxes allow multiple fonts. You can create a text box the exact
size of a cell by holding down the Alt key while you drag.

--
Joel Spolsky
Program Manager / Microsoft Excel
joelsp@microsoft.com


Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
From: joelsp@microsoft.com (Joel Spolsky)
Subject: Re: @RISK for EXCEL 4.0
Date: 11 Nov 92 01:09:05 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Keywords: EXCEL RISK

In article <p.foster.35.721296630@fs3.mbs.ac.uk> p.foster@fs3.mbs.ac.uk (Peter Foster) writes:
>Hello all
>
>I recently placed a notice in this area concerning an add-in for EXCEL 4.0 
>called @RISK. I did get a response but the packages etc. recommended were 
>for the Macintosh! I need this add-in for EXCEL 4.0 for a PC.


Hi --

@Risk is produced by:

	Palisade Corporation
	31 Decker Road
	Newfield, NY 14867
	(607) 277-8000

In addition, you may want to look at an add-in called Crystal Ball, 
produced by:

	Market Engineering Corporation
	1675 Larimer Street, Suite 600
	Denver, CO 80202
	(303) 893-0100

Legalese: These products are manufactured by a vendor independent of
Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this
product's performance or reliability.

--
Joel Spolsky
Program Manager
Microsoft Excel
joelsp@microsoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
From: timtow@timtow.b1.ingr.com (Tim Tow)
Subject: Re: Spreadsheet compiler for Excel??
Reply-To: timtow@timtow.b1.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corp, Huntsville, Alabama
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:14:34 GMT

In article <EKELAND.92Nov8081733@boeygen.nr.no>, ekeland@boeygen.nr.no (Anders Ekeland) writes:
|> do they exist, or is it only 123 that is supported?
|> 

With the Excel Supplemental Developers Kit ("SDK"), you can write the macros
into C code (with calls to Excel 4.0 functions) and compile it in C.

-- 
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 Huntsville, AL                       |      threat to justice everywhere"    
 Mailpath:..timtow@timtow.b1.ingr.com |                                      
 Voice:                  205-730-2117 |         - Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
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Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: morita@kekvax.kek.ac.jp (Youhei Morita (KEK Computing Center))
Subject: How to automate UNIX -> Mac/PC spreadsheet analysis?
Reply-To: morita@kekvax.kek.ac.jp
Organization:  KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
Distribution:  comp
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 04:10:50 GMT

Hi,

I'm crossposting this question to several newsgroups since this
one covers the several (possible) platforms...

We take real-time data using some UNIX workstaions and/or VAX/VMS.
Most of the data will be stored and analyzed afterwards, but we
would like to review some part of data repeatedly using ready-made
spreadsheet application(s) like Microsoft Excel.

We know how to port data from UNIX/VAX to Mac/IBM-PC -- by
means of "copy/paste" or sevefal types of file transfer/sharing
mechanism.  But we would like to automate the procedure of porting the
data from UNIX to Mac/PC, creating cell macros, and generating a plot.
It would even be nicer if one could make use of publish & subscribe
feature of the Mac System 7.

Now the question is, does anyone know how to achieve such an automated
real-time spreadsheet analysis?  Requirements/constraints are as
follows:

  1. Spreadsheet has to be a commercial-quality.  (Excel 4.0 or
     equivalents.)

  2. Price of the spreadsheet license has to be an order of the
     Excel on a Mac or a PC, or less.

  3. Data is on UNIX (SUN/DECstation) or on VAX/VMS.

  4. Data is updated every 10 seconds or so.

  5. Size of the data to be analyzed on the spreadsheet will be
     several tens or hundreds of KByte.

  6. A few series of plots have to be generated every 1 minutes
     based on the data using cell macros, hopefully by a single
     key-stroke or a mouse-click.

  7. Spreadsheet analysis (worksheet) must be changed easily and
     interactively.  (ie, should not be hardwired into the
     application).

Possible solution(s) and my (yet another) request for pointers.

  1. Write/update an Excel format file on a UNIX file system, and
     share it with Mac or PC.

     --> Is the format of the Excel file publicly available?
         (How about Wingz?)

  2. Write/update a SYLK format file on a UNIX file system, and
     share it with Mac or PC.

     --> Where should I get the information on the detail of SYLK
         format?  What SYLK can, and cannot do?  How do you achieve
         automatic spreadsheet analysis under this environment?

  3. Run SoftPC-like emulation on UNIX, and run Excel-like
     applications on it.

     --> Does anyone use SoftPC under the requirements given
         above?  What are your experiences/impressions?

  4. Run Excel-like spreadsheet application on UNIX.

     --> Is there any good, powerfull and *cheap* spreadsheet
         applications for SUN/DECstation?  Any experiences/comments?

Please e-mail me directly and I will summerize to the net.

$!+++
$! Youhei Morita              National Laboratory for High Energy Physics (KEK)
$! SMTP:   morita@kek.ac.jp                  Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305, JAPAN
$! HEPnet: KEKVAX::MORITA        Phone: 0298-64-1171 x3435   FAX: 0298-64-4402
$!---
From: p.foster@fs3.mbs.ac.uk (Peter Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Subject: @RISK for EXCEL 4.0
Summary: @RISK FOR EXCEL 4.0
Keywords: EXCEL RISK
Date: 9 Nov 92 08:10:30 GMT
Organization: Manchester Business School

Hello all

I recently placed a notice in this area concerning an add-in for EXCEL 4.0 
called @RISK. I did get a response but the packages etc. recommended were 
for the Macintosh! I need this add-in for EXCEL 4.0 for a PC.

Any takers!?

Thanks

Peter Foster

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 11:03:59 EST
From: Jack W. Sharer <J0S@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Subject: Totals by Catagories?

I have a spread sheet with item amounts in column G and catagories
in column F.  I've sorted the rows using column F as the key.
I need to have partial totals of the amounts in column G for each
catagory in column G.  I've been entering the @SUM(G1..G13),
@SUM(G14..G17), ... formulas by hand in the "break" rows of column
H.  (A "break" row is one in which column F changes to a new catagory.)
This process has become very tedious.  Could you suggest a Quattro
MACRO which would automate this process?
Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
From: reb@cypress.com (Risto Bell)
Subject: 123 current directory
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Southeast Design Center
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 05:37:36 GMT

Using xLotus 1.1 (@INFO("release") gives "3.00.01").  How can it respect your
shell's current directory at the time of invokation?  The 123 Sun manual
glossary entry for "current directory" states:

   "... or with the directory from which you started 1-2-3, which is used if
   /Worksheet Global Default Dir or /File Dir have not been specified."

This implies a mode for this.  How do you "unspecify" those two directories?
Deleting the configuration file fails.

This works: '(ln -s ~/.l123set>&/dev/null; setenv HOME $PWD; 123 )' and maybe
usually one can even live with any side effects.

Assuming this glossary entry is wrong, and the directory should be set from an
autoexec macro, is there a common initialization worksheet always loaded (when
it exists) whose autoexec macro can be used?  I thought I recalled previous
posts regarding this.  I know I can emulate it using the -w option.

Any pointers appreciated, thanks.
--
-Risto        reb@cypress.com          "Have you got a 27B stroke 6?"
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
From: ekeland@boeygen.nr.no (Anders Ekeland)
Subject: Spreadsheet compiler for Excel??
Organization: /nr/boeygen/u2/ekeland/.organization
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 07:17:33 GMT

do they exist, or is it only 123 that is supported?
From: cave@cis.rand.org (Jonathan Cave)
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Subject: Re: Excel macro help! !pleh orcam lecxE
Keywords: macro flip excel help writing stupid
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:36:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: cis.13975
Reply-To: cave@cis.rand.org (Jonathan Cave)
Organization: RAND, Santa Monica CA

In article <udarryl.721045294@mcl> udarryl@mcl.ucsb.edu (Darryl 'Well) writes:
|
|ANYWAYS, right nowm, my macro looks like this:
|
|A1     flipit
|A2     =ARGUMENT("tex",2)
|A3     =FOR("count",1,LEN(tex),1)
|A4     =count
|A5     =(LEN(tex)+1)-count
|A6     =REPLACE(tex,count,1,MID(tex,(LEN(tex)+1)-count,1))
|A7     =NEXT()
|A8     =tex
|A9     =RETURN(A6)
||
|(cells a4, and a8, are strictly for debugging purposes, unless you can
|think of a better use for them)

There is certainly a better use for A8 -- it is a good place to keep
track of the current version of tex.  The problem with the macro as written
is that the variable "tex" does not get updated.

Try the following

|A1     flipit
|A2     =ARGUMENT("tex",2)
|A3     =FOR("count",1,LEN(tex),1)
|A4     =if(count=1,tex,A6)
|A5     =(LEN(A4)+1)-count
|A6     =REPLACE(A4,count,1,MID(A4,(LEN(A4)+1)-count,1))
|A7     =NEXT()
|A8     =RETURN(A6)

					Jonathan
From: tisalli@sara.cc.utu.fi
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Subject: Greek alphabet in Excel 4.0
Date: 5 Nov 92 13:15:55 GMT
Organization: University of Turku, Finland

Hi everybody !

Is it possible to use Greek alphabet in Excel 4.0? I know that it's possible to
write them alone in one cell, but what I need is to use to different fonts in
the same cell in order to write such things as alpha-particle, gamma-globulin,
etc. I have tried to import such texts from WP for Windows and Word, but the
Greek letters just seem to vanish somewhere. Anyone have any ideas how to do
this?


Timo Sallinen
Medical physics
University of Turku
Finland
From: adionne <Andre L. Dionne>
Date: 03 Nov 92 18:56:00
Subject: Re:  Excel 4.0, Fantastic!
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets


I am using Excel 4.0 on an old Mac-SE.  Have just begun and so far its
great!  The upgrade price was also great!  Good Luck.
From: gk1@acpub.duke.edu (Gavin  Kistner)
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Subject: FileMaker Pro 2.0 --> Excel 4.0
Summary: Preliminary reactions to proposed working
Date: 11 Nov 92 01:53:27 GMT
Followup-To: gk1@acpub.duke.edu

Mom's got a really complicated filing system and billing system which is
necessary to cover multiple bank accounts and keep track of where and why
and how everything was spent.  (Why and what it is is too complicated...)

ANYHOW, she's also been using Wingz to cover the general overall finances.
What she wants me to do is design a way to have everything from FileMaker
go over into the spreadsheet.  She wants the total of all items with a date
of 11/ and the category "food" (for example) to be automatically ported
over into the correspnding cell.

SO, I've ordered FileMaker 2.0 and Excel 4.0 and they're on their way.

What I want to get is the general reaction of people here as to how
difficult/easy/"THAT'S SIMPLE, YOU SHOULD SEE WHAT I DO!" it's going to be.

Anything you can contribute, be it problems or praises or instruction, is
very much appreciated!

Thanks!

_______________________________________________________________________________
"If this is reality, where are the grapefruits?"          
Gavin Kistner          ( gk1@acpub.duke.edu )
_______________________________________________________________________________