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From: Pearson@LLL-MFE.ARPA
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Subject: Public Domain Spreadsheets - halfbaked recap.
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Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 14:46:23 EDT
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    Long ago, I asked for any public-domain spreadsheet with sources
available. Here is what I learned:

1) Turbo Pascal comes with the source for a demonstration spreadsheet. I
   phoned Borland, and was told that they would have no quarrel with my
   intention to translate their spreadsheet program into C (which I've
   never gotten around to doing), but that they'd feel badly if I took their
   source to compile it on someone else's compiler. The source code itself
   begins with a declaration that it's in the public domain.

2) Someone forwarded to me a shell script for generating a program variously
   identified as SC or TC, originally by James Gosling, modified by
   Mark Weiser and Bruce Israel, Univ. of Maryland. While I don't speak
   shellish myself, most of it seems pretty straightforward. The sticking
   point for me is that the nitty-gritty  -  the parsing  -  is represented
   by a page or two of BNF that, I gather, is supposed to be chewed on by
   LEX and/or YACC, neither of which we have on our Crays.

3) Two people referred me to "vc", a spreadsheet in C posted to
   net.sources. I'd appreciate advice on how to get at it.

  -  Peter. (pearson@lll-mfe.arpa)