topic Re: Spreadsheet for OpenVMS in Operating System - OpenVMS

Spreadsheet for OpenVMS

Larry_139 — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:38:37 GMT

What would be a good spreadsheet for OpenVMS. I'm not looking for anything too extravagent.

I've created a lot of text files with data - and would like a package to generate bar / stacked bar type charts.

Thanks in advance,
Larry

Re: Spreadsheet for OpenVMS

Hein van den Heuvel — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:52:25 GMT

We used to have 'dec-calc', I don't know where that is now. You started it with '$calc'. Worked much like lotus-123.

Good'ol datatrieve likes to read data from text files ('domains') and present them in reports as well as graphs. That product is still alive.

I just checked 'tti_intouch' from the freeware cd, but that does not seem to have graph support.

fwiw,
Hein.

Re: Spreadsheet for OpenVMS

Karl Rohwedder — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:09:04 GMT

DEC-Calc:
The last version was on the VAX distro Jun2001-CD2 (4.0B). But it was VAX only and support is long gone, I fear.

mfg Kalle

Re: Spreadsheet for OpenVMS

Andreas Fassl — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 03:48:19 GMT

Hi Larry,

hopefully the porting team for OpenOffice will present the release for OpenVMS very soon.
This will be very extravagant. :-)
http://www.oooovms.dyndns.org/

Regards

Andreas

Re: Spreadsheet for OpenVMS

Michelle Popejoy — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:05:09 GMT

Years ago, we used 20/20, which seemed quite robust. I believe it was owned (developed?) by Access Technology, but I found the following SPD for CA-20/20, so it's likely CA bought it around the same time they were buying up a lot of good (and in many cases inexpensive) VMS apps and utilities.

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/info/SP3278/SP3278PF.PDF

I'm not able to find any other active references to 20/20. I'm guessing that CA killed it after buying it.

A google search also turned up XESS (which I'd never heard of) that claims to run on Linus, UNIX, VMS & WNT. They offer a trial version download.

http://www.ais.com/Xess/welcome.html

Also found Freeware AnalyRim: http://www.ptf.com/ptf/products/UNIX/current/0115.0.html

Good luck. I'd be interested to find out what you end up going with and what you think of it.

-Michelle

Re: Spreadsheet for OpenVMS

Galen Tackett — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:29:04 GMT

Here's some information from comp.os.vms on spreadsheets for VMS:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.os.vms/browse_thread/thread/269133f2259fba6b/76e38258229917eb?q=%22glenn+everhart%22+analyrim#76e38258229917eb

Or the TinyURL equivalent:
http://tinyurl.com/5tmvg

You'll see a reference by Glenn Everhart to his AnalyRIM from 2002, so I'd guess that it was working on at least VMS V7.3.

You may be able to find it on one of the older OpenVMS Freeware CDs or on one of the web sites that VMS freeware.

Re: Spreadsheet for OpenVMS

Ian Miller. — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:37:46 GMT

Analyrim is on Freeware V4
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freeware40/sigtape_stuff/analyrim/