Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:50:06 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a standalone spreadsheet program available for Freebsd? Message-ID: <47f11aa2-d96c-7f56-019c-6aa9f43f5c12@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <20200417152842.GE894@rancor.immure.com> 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> <20200417152842.GE894@rancor.immure.com>
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On 4/17/20 10:30 AM, Bob Willcox wrote: > 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. > I have to say that, for most of us, the use of things like spreadsheets is pretty lightweight. In that light, I have incrementally been moving to Google Sheets (and Docs). It's cloud based so it runs on everything that has a decent browser. That way, I don't have to cruft up my BSD and Linux systems with business applications that typically are: A) Large with lots of dependencies and B) Often not frequently or well maintained. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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