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NExS runs under X Windows and OSF/Motif on Linux.
Since
X Windows allows a workstation or X terminal to display
information from applications running on other systems,
NExS users can transfer data among spreadsheets running
on different computers.
You can also create applications that establish live data
connections to import or export data as it is calculated
on computers anywhere on your network.
Consider the potential for using connections in your work
- for having NExS accept, process, display, and transfer
information to and from other programs in real-time.
That is, the data will be continually updated on screen
as you watch. For example, you can:
- use NExS to custom-design a form to display financial
trading information, updated in real-time, and to
compute complex analysis functions.
- create a spreadsheet that organizes and displays
process-control data (e.g. monitoring and controlling
water flow in a water treatment plant) in a format of
your design, then pass that data to other programs for
other purposes.
- continuously monitor quality-control data fed from a
manufacturing process or scientific data from a
laboratory instrument in any format you define.
- create your own built-in functions and call them from
a NExS spreadsheet.
- pass extremely demanding calculations to a
supercomputer that can calculate many times faster
than your workstation, then pass the results back to
your workstation.
- conduct continuous statistical analyses of an
ever-changing population sample.
- use NExS as the front-end for any custom-written
program, thereby saving yourself the programming
effort required to create user interfaces.
A NExS spreadsheet accommodates incoming and outgoing
connections to 63 different programs at the same time,
offering vast possibilities for using NExS in very
sophisticated applications.
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NExS User's Guide, Version 1.4.5
Grey Trout Software
11 April 1999