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Hello: I've just updated THE PAGE. Here are the most recent changes:

I added Marshall Grover's B5 rules, Alan Blain's Star Trek rules

revisions, and Phil Pournelle's Star Wars crossover rules.

Later,

> hosford donald writes:

@:) I downloaded that excel FT ship sheet from your page. I am quite @:)
impressed!
@:)
@:) Who did that? That makes ship construction effortless ( until you @:) go
to write the ship down...)

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Sometimes I wonder why I bother existing.

> At 10:43 PM 2/12/97 -0600, you wrote:

> revisions, and Phil Pournelle's Star Wars crossover rules.
http://www.uwm.edu/~cthulhu
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I downloaded that excel FT ship sheet from your page. I am quite impressed!

Who did that? That makes ship construction effortless ( until you go to write
the ship down...)

> On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Joachim Heck - SunSoft wrote:

Now, now, don't worry -- all Sun has to do is to create a web-capable
platform-independent spreadsheet application with more "features" than
Excel that can translate files into 4 or 5 different proprietary formats,
using 3 or 4 different platforms, and have it ready by April.

There, that isn't so bad now, is it?

> hosford donald writes:

@:) I did like the excel worksheet...I just thought the author needed @:) to
be thanked for his efforts...
@:)
@:) Did you do another excel sheet for ft construction?

No I wrote the Java version. Well, actually I did write an Excel spreadsheet
but I stopped using it because I didn't like carting Excel around with me
everywhere I went. Funny thing is that the last time I tried to run my Space
Dock applet it didn't work. Unfortunately, this doesn't really mean anything
because I'm behind a firewall and the security restrictions get really strange
from back here.

If you're curious, you can find it at

> Rick Rutherford writes:

@:) Now, now, don't worry -- all Sun has to do is to create a
@:) web-capable platform-independent spreadsheet application with more
@:) "features" than Excel that can translate files into 4 or 5 @:) different
proprietary formats, using 3 or 4 different platforms, @:) and have it ready
by April.
@:)
@:) There, that isn't so bad now, is it?

Well, I guess not but in actuality all we have to do is get the confounded AWT
(graphics interface) to work exactly the same on all platforms and then let
someone else write Excel for Java. As for translating files and the like, I
don't think it's of great use for a ship construction program.

  Maybe I'm wrong, though - it might be interesting to have one of
these programs turn out FT ship descriptions in various internet-ready
formats (for programs such as ftmap or whatever). One courageous tester of my
ship construction applet suggested just this but I never got around to
implementing it.

> At 02:06 PM 2/13/97 -0500, you wrote:

To enjoy another day perhaps.....I did like the excel worksheet...I just
thought the author needed to be thanked for his efforts...

Did you do another excel sheet for ft construction?

> @:) I downloaded that excel FT ship sheet from your page. I am quite

Relax. I've used your Space Dock and have even included a link to it on my
PBEM page. It made my job easier for the tournament preparation.

Thanks for your work, joachim!

> On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Joachim Heck - SunSoft wrote:

Well, I think you still have to take into account the LAN side of things. Just
because Sun wants to release the offices of the world from the bondage of MS
Office doesn't mean they'll stop using it, and it would be
helpful if whatever meta-application you guys come up with could
translate
the ship-generating Excel file into Lotus or Quattro Pro or whatever
spreadsheet application already exists on people's LAN server.

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> Rick Rutherford writes:

@:) Well, I think you still have to take into account the LAN side of @:)
things. Just because Sun wants to release the offices of the @:) world from
the bondage of MS Office doesn't mean they'll stop
@:) using it, and it would be helpful if whatever meta-application you
@:) guys come up with could translate the ship-generating Excel file
@:) into Lotus or Quattro Pro or whatever spreadsheet application @:) already
exists on people's LAN server.

Very true. Except that it's unlikely that it'll be Sun writing the
application. Hey, maybe, I don't know, but the most likely scenario is that
someone else will write it. And if Sun does write it and does leave out
features to work with legacy systems, then you can bet someone else will write
a version that really works and ours won't sell. Capitalism in action.

> At 03:56 PM 2/13/97 -0500, you wrote:
Thanks...I will look it up and try it.