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Release 0.4 of the spread sheet teapot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Thu Aug 3 11:26:36 1995
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 18:48:49 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: Michael Haardt <michael@cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Release 0.4 of the spread sheet teapot
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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This is release 0.4 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. Several people already use it for daily work now,
though.
The current release has the following features:
- curses based user interface with easy to understand menues
- portable sheet file format uses XDR or ASCII format
- tbl, LaTeX or formatted text files can be generated
- typed expression evaluator with the types int, float, string, error,
pointer to cell and empty
- powerful cell addressing
- three-dimensional sheets
- new expression evaluator functions can be added very easy
- English or German builtin messages & X/OPEN message catalogs
- a user guide, available as troff -mm, PostScript and ASCII
The following changes compared to version 0.3 were made:
- various bug fixes
- here.x(), here.y() and here.z() were renamed to x(), y() and z().
- All functions which take three integer numbers for positions are
now also happy with two (using the current layer) or one (using the
current row of the current layer).
- eval() can evaluate the expressions of other cells in the context
of the current cell
- $() function added to access environment variables
- stof() function added to convert strings to numbers
- min() and max() functions
- more comfortable insert and delete function, page-wise scrolling up,
down, left, right and more hotkeys
- better menu structure
- better tbl/formatted text/LaTeX generation, optional quoting of special
characters
- faster label access, faster loading and much faster saving as ASCII
- options added to load files either in XDR or ASCII at startup
- The user guide can be formatted with nroff as well and has been improved.
- small manual page
- German messages added
teapot should work on any system which supports the following:
- POSIX
- ANSI C
- XDR library (source is free available)
- SYSV curses library (ncurses is a free clone)
- X/OPEN message catalogs (optionally)
teapot is available via anonymous ftp from cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de,
path pub/linux/teapot.tz.
Michael
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