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- From: tracy@bluenote.b23b.ingr.com (Robert Tracy)
- Subject: Re: Spreadsheet for Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.191834.18442@b11.b11.ingr.com>
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- Organization: DAZIX, An Intergraph Company
- References: <1992Jul30.142858.3952@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:18:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.142858.3952@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, djansa@mersem.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Jansa) writes:
- |> Just in case anyone is interested:
- |>
- |> I am currently porting sc (spreadsheet calculator) to linux.
- |> It's up and running on my system, but I want to test it fully
- |> and get the arrow keys to work (the great curses problem).
- |>
- |> Also, I want to clean up the code and Makefile( gee, what a
- |> mess!! Enough #ifdefs to kill a horse! ). I will make a Linux
- |> makefile and take all the #ifdefs out of the code to make it
- |> `simple' to debug and maintain. I'll keep the "#ifdef'ed" code around
- |> in case anyone wants to port it to some other platform.
- |>
- |> If there is no interest, stop me now :) !
-
- There is interest, but you might want to know that a group at the
- University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee has developed an X version of sc.
- That might be a better starting-point for a linux-port since you will
- be insulated from much of the system-dependence by X.
-
- The guy that posted the article on this project in comp.windows.x was
- James Jegers (jimj@miller.cs.uwm.EDU)
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