About SCalc

SCalc is a simple spread sheet program. The user interface applies the UNIX curses library for control of a terminal screen in text mode. This program was developed using the GNU C++ compiler and related tools.

Limitations in SCalc

• The screen does not scroll. The entire spread sheet is the size of the terminal screen with five columns, A to E, and nine rows 1 to 9.
• Numbers are double precision floating point and are displayed in scientific format or in floating point format.
• Column widths will are fixed at 14 spaces. Text that exceeds the column width is clipped in the cell view. Numerical data in scientific format should always fit this space.
• The user cannot copy from cells to other cells, insert or delete lines or columns, of change cell widths.

Some features of SCalc

• Built in mathematical functions abs, cos, ln, exp, ...
• Features for saving and loading spread sheets to and from disk
• Capability to clear spread sheets
• Features for automatically or manually re-calculate cell values