To: Harry.Bovik@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Subject: on-line spreadsheets
Keywords: spreadsheets, misc binaries
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 16:49:13 -0400
Message-ID: <13999.749422153@GS91.SP.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: Tammy_Anita_Green_Carter@GS91.SP.CS.CMU.EDU

After a query to the community in general, there seem to be
few options here to use for spreadsheets.  The one that
I've ended up using is called WINGZ.  Basic info about the
ones that I heard of is below:

WINGZ:  

It does not have the features of 123 or Excel, but it's the best I can
find for our environment.

For a pmax, the executable is located in
/afs/andrew/pmax_ul4/local/lib/wingz/Wingz

You would also need to create a symlink from 
/usr/local/lib/wingz that points to /afs/andrew/pmax_ul4/local/lib/wingz,
and set the environment variable WINGZ to /usr/local/lib/wingz
(I haven't tried setting WINGZ directly to /afs/andrew... but I see
no reason why that won't work. I don't remember why I did it this way.)

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Try "wingz" (it requires X11).  I run it as follows:

	setenv WINGZ /afs/andrew/pmax_ul4/local/lib/wingz
	setenv WINGZPRINTCOMMAND lpr
	/afs/andrew/pmax_ul4/local/lib/wingz/Wingz

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I use wingz, a spreadsheet program which can be found on andrew land.
It's much better than 2020, but requirs X window. The manual can be
checked out from the cluster office on 5th floor. However, the on-line
help is more handy and useful.

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{
Personally, I've found this to be a nice package.  There are extensive
manual pages on-line and the setup is pretty nice.  It seems as though
I can do everything in this that I need to do.  Plus, it doesn't crash
on me for unexplained reasons.  :)  
}

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sc:

	I use sc, which isn't perfect but doesn't core dump (often ;-).
It's got some bugs I know about, like block moves can't be done in reverse
(just like strcpy(str+1,str) which fails if strcpy isn't smart).  But it
seems to work okay.

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There's a program called "sc" that's a simple, crude spreadsheet.  It's
in some misc collection.  I don't know how much of a whiz-bang
feature-packed spreadsheet you need, but at least it never core dumped
on me.

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{
Personally, again, I prefer something that is X-based because it has
nice buttons and is "idoit-proof" (hopefully).  :)
}

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2020:

{
I just could *not* get this to work.  Not at all.  It core dumped
on me every few minutes for unexplainable reasons and I could not
find any kind of manual pages to go with it to help.  <sigh>  It's
too bad because it seemed very simple.
}

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oleo:

there's a GNU spreadsheet called oleo that supposed to be pretty good.
ask lord@andrew about it.

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{
I don't know anything about it.  I didn't contact this person to find
out either since I was happy with WINGZ.
}

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xspread:

Try xspread. In my workstation (SunOS), it is
in /usr/misc/bin/xspread. It's somewhat similar
to Lotus 123. A hint: "/" brings up the menus.

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{
This I couldn't try because there isn't any binary for a pmax.
<sigh>  It sounded nice, too......
}


Hope this may help someone else......

Tammy