So how are you giving them GUI? The last thing I want to do is move away from the 3000 but I want to make the data more useful/give the end user more power. Example, it is a lot easier to manipulate data (especially for non-IT folks) in Excel than in an ASCII file or non-GUI data base. How have you tried to bridge these worlds? > ---------- > From: Mark Undrill[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Reply To: Mark Undrill > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:09 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] More Powerful and Prettier > > "Gary Sielaff" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message > news:399ab119$1_2@skycache-news.fidnet.com... > > This is what I was saying (or trying to say) in my original msg. about > > pretty not selling the 3k. The payroll clerk who has to enter 250 plus > > time sheets every two weeks (right or wrong and I am not debating this) > > doesn't give a hoot about pretty or GUI or what ever you want to call > > it. She just wants to get the time entered. > > Short on reteric(sp) > > Gary > > I've been saying this for years but the mantra keeps coming back "We want > GUI". So that's what we're giving them. It's not the clerk who decides to > buy/keep the '3000. They just have to get on with it. > > -- > Mark Undrill > www.screenjet.com >