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A new spread sheet for Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Mar 4 07:02:15 1995
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 12:44:22 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: michael@cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
Subject: A new spread sheet for Linux
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: spread sheet
Organization: ?
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
This is the first alpha release version 0.1 of a new spread sheet
program, written in ANSI C. Alpha release means, it does not offer all
functionality of other spread programs yet and it needs public testing.
The current release already has the following features:
- curses based user interface
- sheet file format uses XDR
- tbl or formatted text files can be generated
- typed expression evaluator with the types int, float, string, error,
pointer to cell, empty and strings
- powerful cell addressing
- three dimensional sheets
- new functions can be added very easy
- uses X/OPEN message catalogs
It misses:
- A name! :)
- (La)Tex output
- A time type, preferably without the limitations of time_t
- A BCD double type for exact representation of numbers like 0.1
- Overflow and underflow exception handling
- Perhaps menu rearrangement for more efficient usage?
- Hotkeys for most important functions: Make suggestions which functions
you would like to reach directly and how.
- A user manual. You can find some notes on command keys, cells,
expressions and function in the file "Notes".
- More functions
It can be obtained via anonymous ftp from cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de,
path pub/linux/unnamed.tz (GNU zipped tar)
Have fun!
Michael
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