HOME
is the name of the user's home directory.
siag1
Scheme in a grid
Usage
siag [X-options]
[siod-options]
[filename ...]
Overview
Siag is an X-based spreadsheet for Unix. It uses Scheme both for expressions and as a macro language, which makes it easy to create new functions. The Scheme interpreter is SIOD written by George Carrette.
Siag stands for Scheme In A Grid.
Options
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See on-line documentation. |
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See on-line documentation. |
Environment
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PRINTER -
is the name of the default printer destination.
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SIAGHELP -
is the name of Siag's online help browser, normally Netscape although any HTML browser can be used.
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SIAGHOME -
is the name of Siag's "home" directory, normally /usr/local/lib/siag.
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SIAGDOCS -
is the directory where Siag's online help files are installed.
Files
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$SIAGHOME/siag/siag.scm -
is automatically read on startup and contains a runtime library including many of the functions that are necessary for normal operation. Siag will not work properly without this file.
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$SIAGHOME/siag/menu.scm -
is also read on startup and contains the code to set up menus. Failure to load this file will result in all the menus being empty.
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$HOME/.siag/siag.scm -
contains optional Scheme code which should be loaded after siag.scm but before any documents.
Diagnostics
Most error messages come from SIOD and are printed on the bottom line. See SIOD source and documentation for interpretation.
Limitations
Siag can read and write several file formats (see on-line documentation for details), but the proprietary Microsoft Excel format is not supported. This can be seen as a strength or a shortcoming, depending on one's preferences.
The sheet can in theory contain up to 100000 lines with 100000 columns. All the data is kept in memory, so the amount of virtual memory limits the real maximum size.
Strings are stored in a dynamically expanding space, which is limited by the amount of virtual memory.
Version
Current version (21 March 2000) is Siag 3.3.0 by Ulric Eriksson, [email protected].
The online documentation is probably more recent than this manpage and is likely to contain more accurate information.
Acknowledgements
Major parts of this program are written by people other than myself. There is no reason to re-implement stuff that is already freely available.
For copyright information and installation instructions, see the various packages. The sources are hacked by Yours Truly to give the programs a uniform look. If you don't approve of that and/or already have the programs installed, there is no need to install my versions.
These are not the original versions. If my modifications break anything, complain to me about it, not the original authors. If the original versions work and mine don't, then don't use mine.
- SIOD
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The embedded Scheme interpreter is an extremely small interpreter called SIOD, which can be used stand-alone or easily integrated into a program as an extension language.
Author: George J. Carrette, [email protected]
Gnuplot-
The plotting utility Gnuplot is used by Siag for plotting graphs from information in spreadsheets.
Authors: Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and others.
Releases
2 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 1 time.