This is release 0.9 beta of teapot (Table Editor And Planner, Or:
Teapot), a new spread sheet program for UNIX.

The current release has the following features:

o  curses based user interface with easy to understand menues
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  English, Dutch or German builtin messages or X/OPEN message catalogues
o  a user guide, available as troff -mm, PostScript and ASCII
o  It is still a small and simple program!

The following changes compared to version 0.8 were made:

o  minor bugfixes
o  workaround for Applix bug which generates incorrect WK1 files
o  e and log functions added
o  mirror regions
o  string(int) added

teapot should work on any system which supports the following:

o  POSIX
o  ANSI C
o  XDR library (source is free available)
o  SYSV curses library (source is free available)
o  X/OPEN message catalogs (optionally)

A GNU zipped tar file is available from:

ftp://cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/unix/teapot-0.9.tar.gz

The following URLs tell you a little more about it:

http://cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~michael/projects/teapot-en.html
http://cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~michael/projects/teapot-de.html
http://cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~michael/projects/teapot-nl.html

Michael
