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- Subject: re: MathCad anyone?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.151830.1@vax1.umkc.edu>
- From: ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu
- Date: 24 Jan 93 15:18:30 CST
- Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
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- >I've just received a flyer on MathCad that will allow me to buy it for $79.00
- >plus S&H. This is version 3.1 for windows and is the full version.
- >Supposedly it is an offer to get engineers and scientist to use it and spread
- >the good word. For the questions:
-
- I got the same offer and have received the package.
-
- >
- >1) is it worth $79.00(I can't imagine many major packages that would not be
- > worth $79.00)
-
- Yes, it is worth that money, since it should be more expensive than those
- most popular Wordprocessor, Spreadsheet, Graphics presentation apps.
-
- >
- >2) will in run in winos2 o.k.
-
- Yes, it is running side by side with my 32-bit C-Kermit for OS/2 2.0.
-
- >
- >3) is there any rumors of a version for os/2
-
- I asked them when I got the offer. They said they will have one and we can
- upgrade when it is available, but they are willing to say when.
-
- >
- >4) any other info you might have.
-
- You raise your questions VERY well so that I can tell you the whole story.
- I suggest that you get a utility called "PStat PM2" at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. It
- is capable of letting you see processes running that you can not see with the
- Window List. And you can use it to swith to or terminate any of them, like
- Window List allows you to do.
-
- Sometimes when you quit/exit Mathcad for Winbloze 3.1 or Wordperfect for
- Windoze 5.1, a process called "-zombie-" by the PStat PM2 will still be
- running. I don't know what's wrong and who to blame. When the second time
- you start Mathcad or WP, you get another version of -zombie-. Many -zombie-'s
- drags down the speed of your machine. A solution is to let PStat PM2 to
- terminate those useless -zombie-'s, but first make sure that they are really
- useless one by using "Switching to" them. If you swith to nothing, you are
- sure that you have a useless -zombie- left running under OS/2.
-
- Guohuan H. Dai/2
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