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Teapot spread sheet release 0.6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Nov 25 21:20:05 1995
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 17:23:45 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: michael@cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
Subject: Teapot spread sheet release 0.6
Keywords: spread sheet, calculator
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
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After a long beta test period, here is release 0.6 of teapot (Table
Editor And Planner, Or: Teapot), a spread sheet program. As the version
number indicates, teapot does not offer all functionality which is
commonly wanted yet and it needs public testing. More and more people
already use it for daily work now, though.
The current release has the following features:
o curses based user interface with easy to understand menues
o portable sheet file format uses XDR or ASCII format
o tbl, LaTeX, HTML or formatted text files can be generated and simple
sc sheets can be converted into teapot format
o typed expression evaluator with the types int, float, string, error,
pointer to cell and empty
o iterative expressions
o powerful cell addressing
o three-dimensional sheets
o new expression evaluator functions can be added very easy
o English, Dutch or German builtin messages or X/OPEN message catalogs
o a user guide, available as troff -mm, PostScript and ASCII
o It is still a small and simple program!
The following changes compared to version 0.5 were made:
o Fixed some typos in the manual and added a section about problems and
solutions, like answering why teapot has conditional evaluation without
needing a special operator for it.
o Modes (like move-only) are being displayed now.
o int(string) has been added.
o string(float) now has optional scientific and precision arguments.
o &() understands empty arguments the same way @() does.
o Minor bug with loading ASCII or SC sheets fixed.
o Parser bug in error handling fixed.
o The hack with iterative expressions has been replaced by a proper
implementation. Two example sheets are provided to show interesting
applications (square roots, game of life).
o You can set the column width of a marked block of cells now.
o New ~= operator, which compares floating point numbers for being almost
equal.
o The expression evaluator and various functions are faster.
o Filling blocks has been added.
o Ported to HP-UX 9 and Solaris 1.1
o Dutch messages added by Wim van Dorst
teapot should work on any system which supports the following:
o POSIX
o ANSI C
o XDR library (source is free available)
o SYSV curses library (ncurses is a free clone)
o X/OPEN message catalogs (optionally)
teapot is available via anonymous ftp from cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de,
path pub/unix/teapot-*.tz, packed as GNU zipped tar file.
Michael
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