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From: ron@brl-sem.UUCP
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Subject: Re: unix spreadsheets?  help!
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Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 13:32:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 26 13:32:10 1987
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In article <1104@uwmacc.UUCP>, jwp@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival) writes:
> We have some cash to spend on a commercial spreadsheet for BSD4.3 Unix.
> We looked at 20/20, but it had essentialy no report generation capability.

We've got 20/20.  Our biggest problem is that they steadfastly refuse to
support TERMCAP.  Their problem is that older termcap definitions lack
things like definitions for arrow keys, etc... Rather than adopt the
current TERMCAP standard so that you could use the real TERMCAP if you
had one available (they could squirl away an alternate TERMCAP on systems
that don't have the latest style termcap), they use their own format which
means that for the large proliferation of terminals we have here, 20/20
doesn't work on many of them.  All they support are a few HP and DEC
terminals, they don't even have an generic ANSI device that would work
on an IBM-PC or Teletype 5620 terminal.