                STATGRAPHICS Plus for WINDOWS V. 1.0
                          APRIL 15, 1994

Welcome to STATGRAPHICS Plus for WINDOWS (SGWIN) V. 1.0
This is the Read.Me file that provides last minute information that is not 
included in the documentation or On-Line Help.


MAXIMIZING MEMORY

1) After you select a data file, in order to maximize the amount of available
   memory, do not open (restore) the data window unless it is necessary 
   to make changes.  Also, if you need to generate data using one of the 
   operators, and you do not have a need to save it, then generate the data
   at the data input dialog box -do not use the spreadsheet.  For example, if 
   you need to generate 10,000 random integers between 1 and 50,000, just 
   enter RINTEGER(10000,1,50000) in the data field on the data dialog box.  
   You will still have the random numbers and the system will use less memory 
   than opening the data editor and generating the 10,000 random numbers. 
   

HP PLOTTER SUPPORT

2) SGWIN currently does not support printing directly to Hewlett Packard 
Plotters.  You can however copy your graph to the clipboard and paste it 
into another Windows application that is capable of sending graphics 
output to an HP plotter.


POSTSCRIPT PRINTING

3) If you are receiving shades of gray when printing to a non-color
   postscript printer, select the option ALL COLORS TO BLACK in the Print 
   Setup Options.


GENERAL PRINTING

4) If you change the color of an object (such as a line) on a graph to pure
   white, it will not print out.  The objects generated by SGWIN are 
   off-white by default, since white is always assumed to be the background 
   color (of white paper) for printing.


IMPORTING DATA

5) If your data is entered into a spreadsheet program such as LOTUS' 
   IMPROV, and you have the data formatted with commas as a thousands 
   separator (E.G. 8,670 or 42,171), then SGWIN will import this data as 
   character instead of numeric.  Format the numbers without the commas 
   and they will import correctly.


GENERATE DATA

6) To multiply two columns (variables) together when one column (variable) 
   has several observations and the second column (variable) has one 
   observation, use the following command:
        Var1 * (Take(VAR2,1))
   where in this example Var1 is equal to 1 2 3 and Var2 is equal to 3.


BRUSHING OPTION ON GRAPHS

7) When brushing a scatterplot, if the variable that you are using to brush 
   the data points contains missing values, the points on the graph 
   corresponding to the missing values always remain highlighted (brushed).


WINDOWS METAFILE FORMAT (.WMF)

8) If you save a graph as a Windows Metafile, Microsoft Word for Windows will
not be able to read the .wmf file.  To avoid this conflict, copy the graph to 
the clipboard and paste it into your Microsoft Word document.
