README

This is release 2.3.0 of teapot (Table Editor And Planner, Or: Teapot),
a spread sheet program for UNIX.

	Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Michael Haardt
	Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Joerg Walter
	This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
	the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
	(at your option) any later version.

	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
	GNU General Public License for more details.

	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
	along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

The current release has the following features:

o  curses based user interface with easy to understand menus
o  FLTK 1.3 based GUI following common user interface conventions
o  Cross-platform compatibility
o  UTF-8 support
o  portable sheet file format uses XDR or ASCII format
o  tbl, LaTeX, HTML, CSV or formatted text files can be generated and
   simple SC and WK1 sheets can be imported
o  typed expression evaluator with the types int, float, string, error,
   pointer to cell and empty
o  iterative expressions
o  powerful cell addressing
o  three-dimensional sheets
o  new expression evaluator functions can be added very easy
o  a user guide, available as PDF and HTML
o  It is still a small and simple program!

teapot should work on any system which supports the following:

o  ANSI C
o  An XDR library (included in the GNU C library, otherwise
   use http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/portablexdr/ )
o  For the text interface: SYSV curses or ncurses library
o  For UTF-8 in the text interface: libncursesw and a UTF-8 locale
o  For the FLTK interface: C++
o  For the FLTK interface: FLTK 1.3

A GNU zipped tar file is available from:

   http://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/

For more information, read the included manual in HTML or PDF format.