drais@donald.cs.umn.edu (D. Drais, ,0000,0) (05/01/91)
This probaly has been asked before, but are there any public domain spreadsheets available for the NeXT. If not.. are there any out there at a reasonable cost? btw I am just checking out the features on a NeXT compared to buying a macIIsi for the U of M IEEE chapter. The main use for it will be for publishing so If anyone has any arguments I can use to support a NeXT over a mac please email me.. thanks in advance D. Drais
ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) (05/01/91)
In article <1991Apr30.171646.25076@cs.umn.edu> drais@donald.cs.umn.edu (D. Drais, ,0000,0) writes: > This probaly has been asked before, but are there any > public domain spreadsheets available for the NeXT. That depends on what you mean by "public domain". There are two free spreadsheets available in source code form, for generic Unix machines. There's "oleo", available via anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu, in the directroy pub/gnu. It's protected under the gnu copyleft. I have not yet tried to get this up and running on the NeXT, but I will this summer. Note that this is version 0.3 of the software; it's probably not ready for general use yet. There's also "sc", available from pc.usl.edu in the directory pub/unix. I've compiled this on my NeXTstation, and it's what I use for day-to-day spreadsheet work. This is version 6.14 of the software (at least the last time I checked). Would it be worth putting a compiled version of this out on the archive sites? -- Doug DeJulio ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu
vinl@wet.UUCP (Vin Locke) (05/03/91)
Yes, I think it would be a great idea to to make your compiled version of the "sc" spreadsheet available for ftp. I haven't gotten Improv yet, and some people, like those buying their machines now, will not be getting it. I think it would be generous of you to post it.