Re: OT: Freestanding spreadsheet program?

2021-04-25 Thread Russell
Weaver wrote: > On 24-04-2021 08:25, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> Back in the good (bad?) old days of TRS-80, all we had was VisiCalc. Simple. >>> Today, is there a useful spreadsheet program that does not rely on all the >>> baggage associated with either an "office suite," or >>> a "desktop environ

Re: OT: Freestanding spreadsheet program?

2021-04-24 Thread Weaver
On 25-04-2021 13:07, rustbuck...@pm.me wrote: > Weaver wrote: >> On 24-04-2021 08:25, Stefan Monnier wrote: Back in the good (bad?) old days of TRS-80, all we had was VisiCalc. Simple. Today, is there a useful spreadsheet program that does not rely on all the baggage associate

Re: OT: Freestanding spreadsheet program?

2021-04-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I think he also wanted something that doesn't require a desktop environment. AFAIK Gnumeric works fine in "naked X11". Stefan

Re: OT: Freestanding spreadsheet program?

2021-04-24 Thread Bob Bernstein
Thank you all. For reasons completely beyond my grasp I selected 'teapot' for further investigation despite there being as far as I can tell no deb for it. Oh well. 9-) -- RSB

Re: OT: Freestanding spreadsheet program?

2021-04-23 Thread Weaver
On 24-04-2021 08:25, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Back in the good (bad?) old days of TRS-80, all we had was VisiCalc. Simple. >> Today, is there a useful spreadsheet program that does not rely on all the >> baggage associated with either an "office suite," or >> a "desktop environment?" > > I can men

Re: OT: Freestanding spreadsheet program?

2021-04-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Back in the good (bad?) old days of TRS-80, all we had was VisiCalc. Simple. > Today, is there a useful spreadsheet program that does not rely on all the > baggage associated with either an "office suite," or > a "desktop environment?" I can mention `gnumeric` and if you're into Emacs I can also

Re: OT: Freestanding spreadsheet program?

2021-04-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
sure, teapot. On Fri, 23 Apr 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: > Bob Bernstein wrote: > > Back in the good (bad?) old days of TRS-80, all we had was VisiCalc. Simple. > > > > Today, is there a useful spreadsheet program that does not rely on all the > > baggage associated with either an "office suite," or

Re: OT: Freestanding spreadsheet program?

2021-04-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Bob Bernstein wrote: > Back in the good (bad?) old days of TRS-80, all we had was VisiCalc. Simple. > > Today, is there a useful spreadsheet program that does not rely on all the > baggage associated with either an "office suite," or a "desktop > environment?" > Sure. treesheets pyspread sc

OT: Freestanding spreadsheet program?

2021-04-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
Back in the good (bad?) old days of TRS-80, all we had was VisiCalc. Simple. Today, is there a useful spreadsheet program that does not rely on all the baggage associated with either an "office suite," or a "desktop environment?" Thx, -- "...that there is no getting away from the central p