From: hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu) Subject: Re: Spreadsheet for Linux Date: 2 Aug 1992 21:55:30 GMT
Fixed in gcc 2.2.2d.
-- H.J. Gcc/libc maintainer for Linux.In article <1992Aug1.182621.7923@pool.info.sunyit.edu>, ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes: |> In article <u31b3hs.712567196@messua> u31b3hs@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt) writes: |> >djansa@mersem.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Jansa) writes: |> > |> >> 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). |> > |> >Apart from cursor keys which I don't like (plus BSD curses doesn't like |> >them :), it was very easy to compile sc on Linux. I wouldn't call that |> >a port. I use it quite often. What are you doing?! :-) My version is |> >1.6.21 (as far as I remember). |> > |> >Michael |> |> I've been responding by email to people working on sc, but I see there |> are quite a few of us so I'll save a little effort by posting here. :) |> |> sc will recognize the arrow keys and compile with little modification |> if you use the BSD definitions and add a couple of #ifdef statements |> that are SystemIII-ish. I have noticed one peculiarity, though, and |> suspect a bug in one of the library functions. |> |> Go to any cell and enter the value 10, 100, 10.00, or anything else |> that is a multiple of ten, and it gets displayed as a cell full of |> asterisks. You can use the value of this cell in calculating other |> cells, so I suspect it is just in a routine for converting the numeric |> value to ASCII. I have tested the same version of sc on a DEC 5000 |> running Ultrix and on a Sun, and this problem doesn't show up so I |> suspect a library function. I just haven't found which one yet. |> |> The problem also occurs with xspread, an X spreadsheet based on sc. |> It has just recently been released to the public and has a lot more |> features than sc, including graphs and the ability to read 1-2-3 files. |> It can be found at vernam.cs.uwm.edu, and I think it is now on |> export.lcs.mit.edu. |> |> If anyone has located this suspected buggy function (or even better, fixed |> it), please post here so we can finish building sc and move on to compiling |> other stuff. |> |> -- |> Jim H. |> * |> * James L. Henrickson ujlh@sunyit.edu |> * "Yet another Jim in the Linux world." :-)