Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:30:19 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a standalone spreadsheet program available for Freebsd? Message-ID: <20200417152842.GE894@rancor.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <6c627b31-af61-96f8-bd9a-3010a52483d1@qeng-ho.org> References: <20200417120548.GC894@rancor.immure.com> <5dada2a9-6348-be80-b51b-303ff5b8790c@druid.net> <20200417150551.GD894@rancor.immure.com> <6c627b31-af61-96f8-bd9a-3010a52483d1@qeng-ho.org>
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 04:13:05PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 17/04/2020 16:05, Bob Willcox wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 07:32:22AM -0500, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > >> On 2020-04-17 07:05, Bob Willcox wrote: > >>> I would like to find a spreadsheet that I can run on FreeBSD in X that is > >>> essentially standalone and drag with it tons of other stuff. I have openoffice > >>> installed but it seems way over the top for my intended purpose. > >> > >> What is the intended purpose. A spreadsheet program is designed to be > >> very flexible and allow many different uses. If you have a very > >> specific use something else may make more sense and be even smaller if > >> that is one of the requirements. > >> > >> If you do need a spreadsheet anyway, knowing the intended use may > >> determine what products you need. Not all programs may have the > >> features you need. > > > > Thanks for your response. > > > > What I would like would be something simple w/o lots of features as my intended > > use is simple. I just want to be able to list expense items and their cost and > > have them added up as a monthly expense budget. That's all. > > It's not a spreadsheet or under X and so may be inappropriate for your > needs but awk with flat files could do that trivially, and it's in the > base system. Not everything needs a GUI. Yeah, I actually had considered that. I've been writing awk progams for years (since 1982) and can see where I could try that approach. Guess I was being lazy and just thinking that maybe there was something out there more like what spreadsheet programs were back in the mid '80s. -- Bob Willcox | It's possible that the whole purpose of your life is to bob@immure.com | serve as a warning to others. Austin, TX |
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