Re: unix utility?
Re: unix utility?
- Subject: Re: unix utility?
- From: Chris Devers <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:52:29 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Markian Hlynka wrote:
> I'm looking for a little utility called 'sc', which is a spreadsheet
> calculator. I'm not sure if it works in X or not.
No, it's a console mode spreadsheet, not graphical (which probably means
that it's not really X11 subject matter, but oh well). There was a copy of
it on the cd-rom that came with _Unix Power Tools, 2nd Ed._, but I'm not
sure if it's still there in the new third edition (I don't see it there):
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/upt2/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/upt3/
It looks like the examples page for the 2nd edition has a download URL:
http://examples.oreilly.com/upt2/#sc
ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/examples/power_tools/unix/split/sc.tgz
Lots of other neat stuff on the UPT2 and UPT3 examples pages, by the way:
http://examples.oreilly.com/upt2/
http://examples.oreilly.com/upt3/
I was actually thinking of trying sc on OSX myself.
We'll have to see if it works :)
Out of curiosity, and to bring this back towards X11 territory, why sc and
not one of the graphical ones? Fink has many options, and they're probably
all more modern than this. My thinking is that sc is probably good for
using remotely through an ssh session, but otherwise one of the graphical
ones might be less painful. It looks like Fink offers Abs, Gnumeric,
KSpread (part of KDE, obviously), and Oleo. I'm not sure which among those
is the nicest, but you've got some options anyway...
--
Chris Devers email@hidden
time slice, n.
The occasional CPU cycle begrudgingly conceded by the operating system
to the user. Also called the period at risk.
Typically, the OS compares the complexity and importance of your
programs with those of its own internal problems. It then allocates
time slices (and memory, perhaps) accordingly. If you do gain a bried
place in the JOB TRICKLE, you can be assured that you really do have a
problem. See also RESPONSE TIME.
-- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
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