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Program name: Drawman
Author name: David Stang
Address: c/o Hire Education
3631 Jenifer Street NW
Washington, DC 20015
Telephone Number: none given
Suggested Donation: $25 or proof that program has been distributed to at
least 5 other persons qualifies for newsletter and
information on updates (which can be downloaded from a
bulletin board).
Program Description:
Drawman is a sophisticated data graphics generation and presentation program for
data in Lotus 1-2-3, Symphony, and Visicalc DIF (Data Interchange Format) and
user-generated data formats. Graphs may be printed using an Epson MX-80 printer
or an HP 7470 plotter, or they may be organized into a slide show for a
sequenced presentation on a computer monitor. According to the manual, a
version of Drawman was licensed to Plantronics for sale with their color
graphics card and many have been sold commercially at $200.
The program has too many features to list. The ability to use data files
developed on a text editor or in Drawman's edit mode and the ability to save
screen images of data graphs to files, however, should be noted. The
weakest part of the program is its support for printers. According to the
documentation, only the Epson MX-80 printer and the HP 7470 plotter are
supported devices. Whether or not this has been corrected in later versions
is unknown.
A comprehensive User's Manual is included on the disk, although it may not
get much use due to the excellent "context sensitive" help screens which are
available at any step in the program.
System requirements to run Drawman are 2 disk drives, 128K (160K
recommended) bytes of RAM memory, a graphics adapter and graphics monitor,
and DOS 1.1 or later. The manual notes that visual difficulty may be
encountered using a monochrome monitor and gives instructions on modifying a
setup file to alleviated this problem.