Hi,
After having decided to license my product “mc” on Linux for
free since October 1996, I had some really good input from the
Linux community. This ended now in the release 6.2a which was
released at 15th Oct 1999.
MacroCALC, or “321” like a couple of users preferred as an alias
name for the program, when “mc” is use by other commands, was
enhanced and debugged in several areas and made Y2K compliant.
For Linux-user most important – there is a glibc-based version
available. Here is the product-README file. Everybody should feel
free to contact the places mentioned herein. A copy of the software
is ready for download in the WWW homepage.
Axel Reinhold
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Abstract
mc – MacroCALC is a powerful Lotus compatible character
based spreadsheet that supports 1000 rows, 64 columns, 40
functions, 8 display formats, file linking, macro program- ming and
user definable functions. MacroCALC is fully integrated with
[nt]roff, units, man, awk, perl and sh. As it should be in the
UNIX-environment, mc can act as a filter enabling users to use
pipes to perform complex transforms on streams of data. It contains
a C program- ming interface as well as Lotus WKS and dBASE file
sup- port. mc’s own file-format is flat ASCII, easy to under- stand
and can therefore be directly manipulated with awk, perl or other
standard UNIX-tools, or even with editors like vi. MacroCALC is the
only spreadsheet that manages units: 1 mile + 1 km = 1.62 miles; 1
km / 1 hour * 30 sec = 8.33 m.mc is a professional product, sold a couple hundred times for
UnixWare, SCO, Coherent and Interactive. It’s rcs- controlled,
lint-clean ANSI-C source is based on yacc, lex and [n]curses. It
runs on every terminal or emulation that has a correct
terminfo-entry. The user-interface is very convenient and
well-known by 1-2-3 users. Function- and cursor-keys and extended
video attributes are sup- ported. The menus and messages are in
separate editable files and can be easily translated into any
language (english, french and german are included. Every command in
the package has a detailed man-page. The product is supported by
the developers own Internet home- page and eMail address.
Software Agreement
You should carefully read this software license
agreement before continuing with installation.The software is provided “AS IS” without warranties of any kind,
either expressed or implied, including, but not lim- ited to the
implied warranties of merchantability and fit- ness for a
particular purpose. The entire risc of the software is with you. In
no event we will be liable for any damages, including any lost
profits, lost savings or other incidental damages arising out of
the use or inabil- ity to use the software, even if we have been
advised of the possibility of such damages, or for any claim by
another party.
Licensing
The software on this distribution is NO “freeware”, but
the unmodified distribution file can be freely distributed in any
way. Without a valid license-key (serial number) the system works
only as a demonstration program. For Linux and FreeBSD the license
is free (but not support!), and the system works with full
functionality on these platforms without any key.
Author
To get a license-key for other platforms than Linux or
FreeBSD please contact:/ARX cleanware
c/o Axel Reinhold
Franz-Heinrich-Str. 20
95100 Selb
Germany
Fax: +49-9287-8244
eMail: mc@freakout.de
Internet: http://www.freakout.de