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This is version 5.1 of the public domain spread sheet SC.  The code has
been tested on BSD 4.3 and system 5.3.0 by the author; lots of other
folks have tried it on other systems.  There are three parts to the
archive.  When you get them unpacked, check out the README file for
installation directions and hints about the Makefile.

Good luck with your 87 taxes!

                    Bob Bond
                    rgb@nscpdc
Disclaimer:

Sc is not a product of National Semiconductor.  It is supplied as is
with no warranty, express or implied, as a service to Usenet readers.

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This is a much modified version of the public domain spread sheet sc,
posted a year or two ago by Mark Weiser as vc, originally by James Gosling.

Changes since my last version (4.1):

1)  Range and cursor reverse video highlighting.

2)  QUICK #ifdefs changed to -n option.  (thanks to Dave Davey)

3)  A shell escape. (more thanks to Dave)

4)  More things to toggle.

5)  An "end" command which allows you to skip to the end of one
    range or the start of another.

6)  PRIMITIVE macro support.  Don't bug me about this.  I'll add to
    it as I get the time.

7)  A better /copy command.

8)  String expressions in addition to constant labels - this includes
    concatenation, substring and numeric to string and back functions.

9)  Time and date functions.

10) Better floating point error handling.  It no longer aborts on
    fp errors.

11) Fixed variable references such as $K$20.  This allows you to
    fix one end of a range instead of the whole thing.

12) File names can be kept in a cell as a label.  To access the
    file, just use the variable name instead of the file name.

13) Optional subranges on the file commands.

14) "w", "b" and " " commands similar to those in vi.

When you get it built, try "sc tutorial.sc" for a simple introduction
to the basic commands.

A new input parser program (psc) has been included.  This program
formats ascii files for use in the spread sheet.

I have modified the makefile to make it easy for you to call the
program what you want (I saw at least five different names in
correspondence and on the net).  Just change "name=sc" and "NAME=SC" to
"name=myfavoritename" and "NAME=MYFAVORITENAME" and try "make
myfavoritename".

Similarly, you can make the documentation with "make myfavoritename.man".
"make install" will make and install the code in EXDIR.  The
installation steps and documentation all key off of the name.  The
makefile even changes the name in the nroffable man page.  If you don't
have nroff, you will have to change sc.man yourself.

The code has been tested against a Vax running 4.2 and 4.3 and a National
ICM-3216 with system V.2 and V.3.  The ICM has a National Semi 32016.  Just
check the makefile for the system flags.   I have heard reports of lots
of other machines that work. If you have problems with lex.c, and don't
care about arrow keys, define SIMPLE (-DSIMPLE in the makefile).  SIMPLE
causes the arrow keys to not be used.

Disclaimer:

Sc is not a product of National Semiconductor.  It is supplied as is with
no warranty, express or implied, as a service to Usenet readers.

                    Bob Bond

    Robert Bond             ihnp4!nsc!nscpdc!rgb
    National Semiconductor        tektronix!nscpdc!rgb
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.TH PNAME 1
.SH NAME
pname \- spread sheet calculator
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pname
[
.I -x
]
[
.I -n
]
[
.I file
]

.SH DESCRIPTION
The spread sheet calculator
.I pname
is based on rectangular tables much like a financial spread sheet.
When it is invoked it presents you with an empty
table organized as rows and columns of cells.  Each cell may have a label
string associated with it and an expression.  The expression may be a
constant or it may compute something based on other entries.

The
.I -x
option causes the
.I put
and
.I get
commands to encrypt and decrypt the data files.
The
.I -n
option starts the program in quick numeric entry mode.
Both of these options can be changed while the program is running
with the ^T command.

When
.I pname
is running, the screen is divided into four regions. The top
line is for entering commands. The second line is for messages from
.I pname.
The third line and the first four columns show the row and column numbers.
The rest of the screen forms a window looking at the table.
The screen has two
cursors: a cell cursor (indicated by a reverse video cell and a '<' on
the screen) and a character cursor (indicated by the terminal's
hardware cursor).  The cell and character cursors are often the same.
They will differ when the user is typing a command on the top line.

The cursor control commands and the row, column commands can be
prefixed by a numeric argument indicating how many times the command
is to be executed.  "^U" can be used before the number if
the number is to be entered while a command is being typed
into the command line or if quick entry mode is in effect.

Commands which use the terminal's control key such as ^N will work both
when a command is being typed and when in normal mode.

Cursor control commands:

.IP \fB^N\fP
Move the cell cursor to the next row.

.IP \fB^P\fP
Move the cell cursor to the previous row.

.IP \fB^F\fP
Move the cell cursor forward one column.

.IP \fB^B\fP
Move the cell cursor backward one column.

.IP \fB^H\fP
Backspace one character.

.IP "\fBh, j, k, l\fP"
Alternate cursor controls (left, down, up, right).  The space bar
is also defined to be right one cell.

.IP "\fBArrow Keys\fP"
The terminal's arrow keys provide another alternate set of cell
cursor controls if they exist and are supported in the
.I termcap
entry.
Some terminals have arrow keys which conflict
with other control key codes.  For example, a terminal could send ^H when the
back arrow key is depressed.  In these cases, the conflicting arrow key
performs the same function as the key combination it mimics.

.IP \fB0\fP
Move the cell cursor to column 0 of the current row.
This command must be prefixed with ^U if quick numeric entry mode
is enabled.

.IP \fB$\fP
Move the cell cursor to the last valid column in the current row.

.IP \fB^\fP
Move the cell cursor to row 0 of the current column.

.IP \fB#\fP
Move the cell cursor to the last valid row in the current column.

.IP \fBg\fP
Go to a cell.  The program will prompt for the name of a cell.
Enter a cell number such as
.I a0
or
.I ae122.

.IP \fBw\fP
Scan forward (right and down)  to the next valid cell.

.IP \fBb\fP
Scan backwards (left and up) to the next valid cell.

.IP \fB^E<d>\fP
Go to end of range.  The
.I ^E
is followed by a direction indication.
This can be any of h, j, k, l, ^N, ^P, ^F, ^B or the arrow
keys.  If the cell cursor starts on a non-blank cell, it will go in the
indicated direction until it hits the last non-blank adjacent cell.  If
the cell cursor starts on a blank cell, it go in the indicated
direction until it hits the first non-blank cell.  This command is
useful when specifying ranges of adjacent cells, especially when the
range is bigger than the visible window.

.PP
Cell entry and editing commands:

.IP \fB=\fP
Enter a numeric expression into the current cell.  The program will
prompt for the expression on the top line.  The usual way to enter a
number into a cell is to type
.I =
then enter the number in response to
the prompt on the top line.  The quick numeric entry option (selected
through the ^T command) shows the prompt when the first digit of a
number is entered.

.IP \fB"\fP
Enter a string into the current cell.  The string entered must be surrounded
by quotation characters.  A string expression can also be entered by
backspacing over the quotation mark in the prompt.

.IP \fB<\fP
Enter a string that will be flushed left against the
left edge of the cell.  The string entered must be surrounded
by quotation characters.
A string expression can also be entered by back spacing over the
quotation mark in the prompt.

.IP \fB>\fP
Enter a label that will be flushed right against the
right edge of the cell.  The string entered must be surrounded
by quotation characters.
A string expression can also be entered by back spacing over the
quotation mark in the prompt.

.IP \fBx\fP
Clears the current cell.  You may prefix this command with a count of
the number of cells on the current row to clear.  Cells cleared with
this command may be recalled with any of the variations of the pull
command.

.IP \fBe\fP
Edit the value associated with the current cell.  This is identical to '='
except that the command line starts out containing the old value or
expression associated with the cell.

.IP \fBE\fP
Edit the string associated with the current cell.  This is the same as
one of <, >,
and ", with the additional
fact that the command line starts out with the old string.

.IP \fBm\fP
Mark a cell to be used as the source for the copy command.

.IP \fBc\fP
Copy the last marked cell to the current cell, updating the row and
column references.

.IP \fB^T\fP
Toggle options.  This command allows the user to switch the state
of the encryption, quick numeric entry and top line display options.
The user should follow the ^T character with one of "x", "n", or
"t" to pick the intended option.  A small menu lists the choices
when ^T is typed.

.PP
Cells can contain both a number and a string.  To enter and edit the
number, use
.I =
and
.I e.
To enter and edit the string, use quote,
.I <, >
and
.I E.
Either the string or the number (but not both at the same
time) can be the result of evaluating an expression.  See the sections below
on numeric and string expressions for more details.

.PP
File operations

.IP \fBG\fP
Get a new database from a file.  If the encryption option
is enabled,
the file is decrypted before it is loaded into the
spread sheet.

.IP \fBP\fP
Put the current database into a file.  If the encryption option
is enabled, the file is encrypted before it is saved.
The optional range argument saves a subset of the spreadsheet to
the output file.

.IP \fBW\fP
Write a listing of the current database in a form that matches its
appearance on the screen.  This differs from the
.I put
command in that
put's files are intended to be reloaded with
.I get,
while
.I write
produces
a file for people to look at.
The optional range argument writes a subset of the spreadsheet to
the output file.
If you try to write to the last file used with the
.I put
or
.I get
commands, or the file specified on the command line when the
program is invoked, you will be asked to confirm that the (potentially)
dangerous operation is really what you wanted.

.IP \fBT\fP
Write a listing of the current database to a file, but put ":"s between
each field.  This  is useful for tables that will be further formatted
by the
.I tbl
preprocessor of
.I nroff.
The optional range argument writes a subset of the spreadsheet to
the output file.
If you try to write to the last file used with the
.I put
or
.I get
commands, or the file specified on the command line when the
program is invoked, you will be asked to confirm that the (potentially)
dangerous operation is really what you wanted.

.IP \fBM\fP
Merges the database from the named file into the current database.  Values,
expressions and names defined in the named file are written into the current
file, overwriting the existing entries at those locations.

.IP \fBR\fP
Run macros.  Since
.I pname
files are saved as ascii files, it is possible to use them as primitive
macro definition files.  The
.I R
command makes this easier by giving a saved a path name as the start of
the file name in the merge command.  The string to use is defined by
the
.I D
command below.  To use write macros, you must be familier with
the save file formats.  This facility is still primitive and could be
much improved.

.IP \fBD\fP
Define a path for the
.I R
command to use.

.PP
The three output operators,
.I put, write
and
.I tbl
can pipe their (unencrypted only) output to a program.  To use
this option, enter "| program" to
the prompt asking for a file name.  For example, to redirect the output
of the write command to the printer, you could enter "| lpr -p".

All file operations take a file name as the first argument to the
prompt on the top line.  The prompt supplies a quotation mark to aid in
typing in the file name.   The file name can also be obtained from a
cell from a label field or a string expression.  In this case, the
leading quote should be deleted with the back space key and a cell name
such as
.I a22
entered instead.  If the string in the cell starts with
"|", the rest of the string is interpeted as a unix command, as above.

.PP
Row and Column operations.  Members of this class of commands can be used
on either rows or columns.  The second letter of the command is either
a column designator (one of the characters c, j, k, ^N, ^p) or a
row designator (one of r, l, h, ^B, ^F).
Commands which move or copy cells also modify the variable references
in affected cell expressions.
Variable references may be frozen by using the
.I fixed
operator or using the "$" character in the reference to the cell.

.IP "\fBar, ac\fP"
Creates a new row (column) immediately following the current row (column).
It is initialized
to be a copy of the current one.

.IP "\fBdr, dc\fP"
Delete this row (column).

.IP "\fBpr, pc, pm\fP"
Pull deleted rows (columns) back into the spread sheet.  The last deleted
set of cells is put back into the spread sheet at the current location.
.I Pr
inserts enough rows to hold the data.
.I Pc
inserts enough columns to hold the data.
.I Pm
(merge) does not insert rows or columns. It overwrites the cells
beginning at the current cursor location.

.IP "\fBir, ic\fP"
Insert a new row (column) by moving the row (column) containing the cell
cursor, and all
following, down (right) one.  The new position will be empty.

.IP "\fBzr, zc\fP"
Hide ("zap") the current row (column).  This keeps a row or column from being
displayed but keeps it in the data base.

.IP "\fBvr, vc\fP"
Removes expressions from the affected rows (columns), leaving only
the values which were in the cells before the command
was executed.

.IP "\fBsr, sc\fP"
Show hidden rows (columns).  Type in a range of rows or columns
to be revealed.  The command default is the first range of rows or
columns currently hidden.

.IP \fBf\fP
Sets the output format to be used for printing the numbers in each cell in
the current column.  Type in two numbers which will be the width in
characters of a column and the number of digits which will follow the
decimal point.  Note that this command has only a column version and
does not have a second letter.  A preceeding count can be used to
specify that more than one column be formatted.

.PP
Range Operations:
Range operations
affect a rectangular region on the screen.
All of the commands in this class start with a slash; the second
letter of the command indicates which command.
The program will prompt for needed parameters.  Phrases surrounded by
square brackets in the prompt are informational only and may be erased with
the backspace key.

Prompts requesting variable names
may be satisfied with either an explicit variable name, such as
.I A10
or with a variable name previously defined in a
.I /d
command.  Range name prompts require either an explicit range such
as
.I A10:B20
or a range name previously defined with a
.I /d
command.  A default range shown in line 2 is used if the range is
omitted from the command.  The default range can be changed by moving
the cell cursor via the control commands (^N, ^F, ^N, ^P) or the arrow
keys.  The default range will be highlighted in standout mode on the
terminal.

.IP "/\fBx\fP"
Clear a range.  Cells cleared with this command may be recalled
via any of the pull row or column commands.

.IP "/\fBc\fP"
Copy a source range to a destination range.
The source and destination may be different sizes.  The result is
always one or more full copies of the source.  Copying a row to a row
yields a row.  Copying a column to a column yields a column.  Copying a
range to anything yields a range.  Copying a row to a column or a
column to a row yields a range with as many copies of the source as
there are cells in the destination.  This command can be used to dup a
cell though an arbitrary range by making the source a single cell
range such as
.I b20:b20.

.IP "/\fBf\fP"
Fill a range with constant values.  The start and increment numbers
may be positive or negative.

.IP "/\fBv\fP"
Values only.  This command removes the formulas from a range of
cells, leaving just the values of the expressions.

.IP "/\fBd\fP"
This command is used to assign a symbolic name to a single cell or
a rectangular range of cells on the screen.  The parameters are the
name, surrounded by quotation marks, and either a single cell name
such as
.I A10
or a range such as
.I A10:B20.
Names defined in this
fashion will be used by the program in future prompts, may be
entered in response to prompts requesting a cell or range name,
and will be saved when the spread sheet is saved with a
.I Put
command.  Names defined must be more than two alpha
characters long to differentiate them from a column names, and must not have
embedded special characters.  Names may include the character "_" or numerals
as long as they occur after the first three alpha characters.

.IP "/\fBs\fP"
This command will list (show) the defined range names.

.IP "/\fBu\fP"
This command is used to undefine a range name.  The range must have
been previously defined.

.PP
Miscellaneous commands:

.IP \fBq\fP
Exit from
.IR pname.
If you were editing a file, and you modified
it, then
.I pname
will ask about saving before exiting.
If you aren't editing a file and haven't saved the data you
entered, you will get a chance to save the data
before you exit.

.IP \fB^C\fP
Alternate exit command.

.IP \fB?\fP
Types a brief helpful message.

.IP "^\fBG or ESC\fP"
Abort entry of the current command.

.IP "^\fBR or ^L\fP"
Redraw the screen.

.IP \fB^V\fP
Types, in the command line, the name of the cell referenced by
the cell cursor.  This is used when typing in expressions which refer to
entries in the table.

.IP \fB^W\fP
Types, in the command line, the expression of the cell referenced
by the cell cursor.

.IP \fB^A\fP
Types, in the command line, the value of the cell referenced
by the cell cursor.

.IP \fB!\fP
Shell escape.
The program prompts for a shell command to run.
The user should terminate the command with a <return> key.
No command will start the shell in interactive mode.
A second "!" will repeat the last command.
If the environment varible "SHELL" is defined, that shell is
run.  If not, /bin/sh is used.

.IP <\fBTAB\fP>
Starts highlight mode.  This allows the user to highlight a range of
cells via the cursor control codes or the arrow keys.  The highlighted
range starts at the cell where the user typed tab and continues through
the current cell cursor.  Hitting tab again causes the highlighted
range to be entered into the command line and the highlighting to be
turned off.  This is most useful for defining ranges to functions such
as @sum().  Hitting ')' acts just like typing the tab key the second
time and adds the closing ')'.

.PP
Expressions that are used with the '=' and 'e' commands have a fairly
conventional syntax.  Terms may be variable names,
parenthesised expressions, negated terms, and constants.
Ranges may be operated upon with '@' functions
such as sum (@sum) and average (@avg).
Terms may be combined using many binary
operators.  Their precedences (from highest to lowest) are: ^; *,/; +,-;
<,=,>,<=,>=; &; |; ?.

.TP 15
e+e
Addition.

.TP 15
e-e
Subtraction.

.TP 15
e*e
Multiplication.

.TP 15
e/e
Division.

.TP 15
e^e
Exponentiation.

.TP 15
Variable Names
Normally, a variable name is just the name of a cell, such as
.I K20.
The value is the contents of the cell.  When the formula is copied to
another location via copy or range copy, variable refernces are offset
by the amount the formula moved.  This allows the new formula to work on
new data.  If the cell reference is not to change, the user can either
use the
.I fixed
operator below, or can use one of the following
variations on the cell name:
.I K20
references cell K20; the reference
changes when the formula is copied.
.I $K$20
always refers to K20; the
reference stays fixed when the formula is copied.
.I $K20
keeps the
column fixed at column K, the row is free to vary.  Similarly,
.I K$20
fixes the row and allows the column to vary.

These conventions also hold on defined ranges.  Range references
vary when formulas containing them are copied.  If the range is defined
with fixed variable references, the references do not change.

.TP 15
@sum(range)
Sum all valid (nonblank) entries in the region whose two corners are defined
by the two variable (cell) names or the range name given.

.TP 15
@avg(range)
Average all valid (nonblank) entries in the region whose two corners are defined
by the two variable (cell) names or the range name given.

.TP 15
@prod(range)
Multiply together all valid (nonblank) entries in the region whose two
corners are defined by the two variable (cell) names or the range name given.

.TP 15
@max(range)
Return the maximum value in specified region.

.TP 15
@min(range)
Return the minimum value in the specified region.

.TP 15
@stddev(range)
Return the sample standard deviation of the specified region.

.TP 15
e?e:e
Conditional: If the first expression is true then the value of the second is
returned, otherwise the value of the third is.

.TP 15
<,=,>,<=,>=
Relationals: true iff the indicated relation holds.

.TP 15
&,|
Boolean connectives.

.TP 15
fixed
To make a variable not change automatically when a cell moves,
put the word \*(lqfixed\*(rq in front of the reference.  I.e.
B1*fixed C3.

.PP
Assorted math functions.  Most of these are standard system functions
more fully described in
.I math(3).

All of them operate on floating point numbers (doubles);
the trig functions operate with angles in radians.

.TP 15
@exp(expr)
Returns exponential function of <expr>.

.TP 15
@ln(expr)
Returns the natural logarithm of <expr>.

.TP 15
@log(expr)
Returns the base 10 logarithm of <expr>.

.TP 15
@pow(expr1,expr2)
Returns <expr1> raised to the power of <expr2>.

.TP 15
@floor(expr)
Returns returns the largest integer not greater than <expr>.

.TP 15
@ceil(expr)
Returns the smallest integer not less than <expr>.

.TP 15
@rnd(expr)
Rounds <expr> to the nearest integer.

.TP 15
@hypot(x,y)
Returns SQRT(x*x+y*y), taking precautions against unwarranted overflows.

.TP 15
@fabs(expr)
Returns the absolute value |expr|.

.TP 15
@sin(expr), @cos(expr), @tan(expr)
Return trigonometric functions of radian arguments. The magnitude of the
arguments are not checked to assure meaningful results.

.TP 15
@asin(expr)
Returns the arc sin in the range -pi/2 to pi/2

.TP 15
@acos(expr)
Returns the arc cosine in the range 0 to pi.
}i(<|J
.TP 15
@atan(expr)
Returns the arc tangent of <expr> in the range -pi/2 to pi/2.

.TP 15
@dtr(expr)
Converts <expr> in degrees to radians.

.TP 15
@rtd(expr)
Converts <expr> in radians to degrees.

.TP 15
pi
A constant quite close to pi.

.TP 15
@gamma(expr1)
Returns the natural log of the gamma function.

.TP 15
@ston(se)
Converts se from a string expression to a number.

.TP 15
@eqs(se1, se2)
Returns a one if se1 is the same string as se2.

.PP
Time and date functions:

Time for
.I pname
follows the system standard: the number of seconds since 1970.
The following functions take the time in seconds as an argument and
return the specified value.  The current time is available through
.I @now,
below.  The functions all convert from GMT to local time.

.TP 15
@month(seconds)
Returns the month, encoded from 1 (January) to 12 (December).

.TP 15
@day(seconds)
Returns the day, encoded from 1 to 31.

.TP 15
@year(seconds)
Returns the year.  Valid years begin with 1970.  The last legal year
is system dependent.

.TP 15
@hour(seconds)
Returns the number of hours since midnight.  Encoded as 0 to 23.

.TP 15
@minute(seconds)
Returns the number of minutes since the last full hour.  Encoded as
0 to 59.

.TP 15
@second(seconds)
Returns the number of seconds since the last full minute, encoded
from 0 to 59.

.TP 15
@now
Returns the current time encoded as the number of seconds since December
31, 1969, Midnight, GMT.

.PP
String expressions are made up of constant strings (characters surrounded
with double quotation marks), and string functions.  The most useful operator
is the concatenation operator, "#".  For example, the string expression
"the"#" dog"
displays the string "the dog" in the cell.  Other string operators
extract substrings and give the date in system standard
format.  A cell name such as "A5" in a string expression will return
the string associated with that cell.

Valid string operators include:

.TP 15
"characters"
Constant strings are characters surrounded by double quotation marks.

.TP 15
@substr(se, i1, i2)
Extract the substring indexed by character number
.I i1
through character
number
.I i2
from the string expression
.I se.
As an example,
@substr("Nice jacket", 4, 7)
returns the string "e jac".
.I Se
can be any string expression.
.I I1
and
.I i2
can be any numeric expressions.

.TP 15
@fmt(se, e)
Fmt converts a number to a string.  The argument
.I se
should be a valid
.I printf(3)
format string.
.I e
is converted according to the standard rules.  As an example,
.I @fmt("**%6.3f**", 10.5)
will yield the string
.I **10.500**.
The second argument,
.I e,
is a double, so applicable formats are e, E, f, g, and G.
Try "%g" as a starting point.

.TP 15
@date(e)
Date converts the time in seconds to a date string 24 characters
long in the following form:

.I Sun Sep 16 01:03:52 1973

.SH SEE ALSO
bc(1), dc(1), crypt(1), ppname(1)

.SH BUGS

Expression reevaluation is done in the same top-to-bottom, left-to-right
manner as is done in other spread sheet calculators.  This is silly.  A
proper following of the dependency graph with (perhaps) recourse to
relaxation should be implemented.

At most 200 rows and 40 columns.
\SHAR\EOF\
else
  echo "will not over write ./sc.doc"
fi
if [ `wc -c ./sc.doc | awk '{printf $1}'` -ne 22846 ]
then
echo `wc -c ./sc.doc | awk '{print "Got " $1 ", Expected " 22846}'`
fi
echo "Finished archive 1 of 3"
# if you want to concatenate archives, remove anything after this line
exit