This is a Z80 spreadsheet program for VT100-compatible terminals based on the Pascal program written and donated to Public Domain by Martin Burger. The original program was written in Oregon Pascal-2 for a DEC PDP-11 machine running the TSX+ or RT-11 OS, and is very similar in formula syntax, command set and functionality to the grandfather of all spreadsheet programs Visicalc.
This version can be built for both CP/M and RSX180/280, and differs from the original program in the following ways:
- BCD floating point math is used for numeric computations.
- Numeric values can be entered in exponential format.
- More functions were added: @SIN, @COS, @ATN, @SIGN, @EXP, @EXP10, @LOG, @LOG10, @FACT, and constant @PI.
- Fixed the @AVG function (in the original program items to be averaged were counted twice and therefore @AVG returned half of the correct value.)
- The format of the saved spreadsheet file is different, and contains additional information like version, column widths, heading, etc.
- Several new commands were added (see the Help file):
- Erase single cell or range of cells.
- Set numeric format (Number, Scientific or General).
- Delete the entire spreadsheet.
- Toggle color (experimental, for e.g. VT525 or xterm).
The orig directory contains the original Pascal program, @AVG function bug included (see line 941 and 948: one of the two is superfluous and must be removed).
The c directory contains a C version of the Pascal program, but with the added features of the Z80 program and without the @AVG bug. The file format is also compatible with the Z80 version. But note that the C program internally uses standard C binary floating point math, and thus it may give different results than the Z80 version; the program simply converts BCD values to binary and vice-versa when reading/saving the spreadsheet file.
