On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:34:58PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On 7/10/07, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >For the debian command line user, what spreadsheet package comes equipped > >with the most functions? > > > I'm not sure that "command line user" and "spreadsheet" should be uttered in > the same sentence. :) Be that as it may, spreadsheets traditionally are > graphical at least in how they are presented. There is/was a spreadsheet > program that could be run in a non-graphical mode, called "sc" and it still > may be available. I tinkered with it in my early days with Linux when there > wasn't a lot of this sort of thing available. ISTR that with "sc" you could > pipe things through it as well as operate it in a more "traditional" > spreadsheet manner. > > If you're a typical command line user, you might just have your data stored > in flat ascii files, and as long as the data are stored that way, you can > use the unix tools that are already there (awk, perl, "join" (for putting > columns together) and so on) to do the calculations you require.
I also tried the CUI (curses-user-interface) spreadsheets but I found that they required too much memory work (what key does what, etc). I found it much easier to just use postgresql with the psql CLI front-end. Postgresql comes with any function you can think of execpt perhaps presentation. The documentation is excellent and SQL queries (data-entry and -retreival) are easy; I didn't do SQL looping and branching. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
