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- From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
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- Subject: Mesa --- lack of database functionality
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.143528.9405@mic.ucla.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 1992 21:35:27 GMT
- Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management
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- I have been trying to convince Athena Design to include a Unix command-line
- file reader. That is, a utility that reads a Mesa spreadsheet and outputs an
- ASCII data file (i.e. a command line equivalent of "save as text"). That would
- allow me to use Mesa to keep all my databases, and to have S or other Unix
- filters operate on a database; or to dial in and look at the contents of my
- spreadsheets. (Even nicer if there was an update mechanism.) Note that this
- cannot be accomplished through Mesa's API.
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- Athena Design sees no demand for this feature, although it would require only
- minimal effort to implement. Perhaps more requests could convince Athena
- Design otherwise. I very much like their spreadsheet, and would want to use it
- for real work.
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- /ivo welch
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