[750] in libertarians
Budget Blancing from afar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Fri Feb 24 14:21:16 1995
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 14:19:26 EST
From: Vernon Imrich <vimrich@MIT.EDU>
|> I imagine I can't get in on the fun from uchicago.
While you cannot run the actual script I've set up, you can
still get hold of the spreadsheets used. If you have a version
of Xess (version 3 or higher) it will work. Xess is an X (Unix
windows system) based spreadsheet program.
I can take the current spreadsheets and save them in a number of
"dumb" formats, which are supposed to be readable by most other
spreadsheet programs (such as "comma separated data format"). I'm
not sure what this will do to the formulas however, nor to the
formulas that require linking between the two sheets to see how much
you've cut things.
Nevertheless, if you have Web access, just link to the site in
my signature, go to the Archives section, and look for the
Budget-Blaster directory. I have not yet updated this tree, nor
included the "dumb" datafiles for use with other spreadsheet programs
to use. WAIT UNTIL SATURDAY BEFORE TRYING THIS.
Finally, other than the diagnositic formulas, there is really nothing
very complex about the sheet entries. Basically it's just several
columns of numbers and a few SUM formulas at the bottom. Subtract
sum of spending from sum of revenue and there you are. Even if you
just get a sheet of projected figures, it should only take a day
or so to realign any formulas if you don't need diagnostic information
(such as how much you cut program X as a percentage of baseline
projection figures stored on another sheet).
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