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-This is release 2.3.0 of teapot (Table Editor And Planner, Or: Teapot),
-a spread sheet program for UNIX.
-
- Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Michael Haardt
- Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Joerg Walter
- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
- (at your option) any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program. If not, see .
-
-The current release has the following features:
-
-o curses based user interface with easy to understand menus
-o FLTK 1.3 based GUI following common user interface conventions
-o Cross-platform compatibility
-o UTF-8 support
-o portable sheet file format uses XDR or ASCII format
-o tbl, LaTeX, HTML, CSV or formatted text files can be generated and
- simple SC and WK1 sheets can be imported
-o typed expression evaluator with the types int, float, string, error,
- pointer to cell and empty
-o iterative expressions
-o powerful cell addressing
-o three-dimensional sheets
-o new expression evaluator functions can be added very easy
-o a user guide, available as PDF and HTML
-o It is still a small and simple program!
-
-teapot should work on any system which supports the following:
-
-o ANSI C
-o An XDR library (included in the GNU C library, otherwise
- use http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/portablexdr/ )
-o For the text interface: SYSV curses or ncurses library
-o For UTF-8 in the text interface: libncursesw and a UTF-8 locale
-o For the FLTK interface: C++
-o For the FLTK interface: FLTK 1.3
-
-A GNU zipped tar file is available from:
-
- http://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/
-
-For more information, read the included manual in HTML or PDF format.
-
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# teapot-spreadsheet
-further development on Teapot, a three-dimensional, function-oriented spreadsheet with iterative updates, written by Michael Haardt and Jörg Walter, from V 2.3.0 posted 2012 Feb 6.
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+This project represents further development on Teapot, a three-dimensional, function-oriented spreadsheet with iterative updates, written by Michael Haardt and Jörg Walter, from V 2.3.0 posted 2012 Feb 6.
+
+This is a development version following release 2.3.0 of teapot (Table Editor And Planner, Or: Teapot), a spread sheet program for UNIX.
+
+ Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Michael Haardt
+ Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Joerg Walter
+ Copyright (C) 2019 Glen Whitney
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see .
+
+The current release has the following features:
+
+* curses based user interface with easy to understand menus
+* FLTK 1.3 based GUI following common user interface conventions
+* Cross-platform compatibility
+* UTF-8 support
+* portable sheet file format uses XDR or ASCII format
+* tbl, LaTeX, HTML, CSV or formatted text files can be generated and simple SC and WK1 sheets can be imported
+* typed expression evaluator with the types int, float, string, error, pointer to cell and empty
+* iterative expressions
+* powerful cell addressing
+* three-dimensional sheets
+* new expression evaluator functions can be added very easy
+* a user guide, available as PDF and HTML
+* It is still a small and simple program!
+
+teapot should work on any system which supports the following:
+
+* ANSI C
+* An XDR library (included in the GNU C library, otherwise use http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/portablexdr/ )
+* For the text interface: SYSV curses or ncurses library
+* For UTF-8 in the text interface: libncursesw and a UTF-8 locale
+* For the FLTK interface: C++
+* For the FLTK interface: FLTK 1.3
+
+A GNU zipped tar file of the prior release V 2.3.0 is available from:
+
+ http://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/
+
+This development version is hosted at https://code.studioinfinity.org/glen/teapot-spreadsheet.
+
+For more information, read the included manual in HTML or PDF format.
+