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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:19:04 -0600
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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> I make frequent use of the evil spreadsheet at work. We do a lot of
> data collection, so we need something of that sort. It's probably
> missing because implementing an Excel-alike is "boring" and somehow
> against "the Plan 9 way".

There are at least a couple of relatively simple spread sheet programs
written in C that should port with minimal pain.  None of them is suitable
if you use your spreadsheet as a typesetter.

--lyndon