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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: Fwd: Some basic Andrew questions
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:37:15 GMT
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- >Anyway, I was wondering about Table. Is it a stand-alone package (able
- >to be used without the rest of the Andrew world)?
-
- I rather doubt it can be built as an application without building the
- rest of Andrew, as it's built atop ATK.
-
- You can fire it up as a separate program.
-
- >Is it a full-functioning spreadsheet, or basic token spreadsheet, to be
- >used for simple applications?
-
- Dunno what a "basic token spreadsheet" is, but, as spreadsheets go, it's
- not exactly a power user's spreadsheet; it comes across to me as more of
- a "proof of concept" spreadsheet, demonstrating that you can build an
- ATK view/dataobject combination, usable as an inset, that offers some,
- well, basic spreadsheet functionality for simple applications.
-
- I suspect it wouldn't be screamingly fast for sufficiently large
- spreadsheets, given that, as I remember, it parses the expression in a
- cell every time it's evaluated.
-
- >If Table is not to be recommended, is there any spreadsheet software
- >that you would suggest which would be Public Domain or governmentally
- >developed??
-
- Beats me whether any government has developed any spreadsheet. There's
- a freely-available spreadsheet for UNIX called "sc", and the GNU
- project's Oleo may now be out, although, of course, while Oleo is
- freely-available, it's definitely *not* public-domain - it's copylefted.
-
- (It might be an interesting project to try to make Oleo into an ATK
- dataobject and an ATK view, to replace "table".)
-