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Version 0.7 of teapot released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Jan 26 20:58:23 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 22:53:26 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: michael@cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
Subject: Version 0.7 of teapot released
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: spreadsheet, calculator
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This is release 0.7 of teapot (Table Editor And Planner, Or: Teapot), a
new spread sheet program for UNIX.
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, CSV 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 catalogues
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 0.6 were made:
o Makefile entry for Solaris 2.4
o Fixed complaints of the POSIX name space police :)
o Sources converted from Origami to fe folding marks; fe is now stable
enough to be used for daily editing.
o Dutch manual page from Wim van Dorst
o German manual page
o clock() function added to cause conditional recalculation of specific
cells
o You move back up from menues and prompts.
o Suspend (job control) is supported.
o Sheets can be saved as CSV files, a format very common in the DOS world
and often used as interface to graphics software, e.g. gnuplot.
o The default extension for ASCII files has been changed from ".txt" to
".asc". This is because CSV files have the default extension ".txt".
o New created cells will be automatically right-adjusted if they contain
a numeric value.
o The save-* batch functions don't append a suffix to the specified file
name any more.
o The default precision has been changed from 6 to 2 and there is a new
flag -p which sets the default precision.
o The new -n flag causes the enclosed double quotes of strings not to be
displayed in the sheet.
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)
A GNU zipped tar file is available from:
ftp://cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/unix/tmp/teapot-0.7.tz
The following URLs tell you a little more about it:
http://cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~michael/projects/teapot-en.html
http://cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~michael/projects/teapot-de.html
Michael
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