'''What is an abacus?''' An ''abacus'' is a mechanical calculating tool, up to today used in Russia, Japan, Korea and China. See [TkSoroban] for an emulation of the Japanese kind. ---- '''Abacus''' Abacus is a Tcl/Tk/C++/C spreadsheet developed for Linux. It supports graphics, printing, saving and loading different formats, cell editing, sorting, column and row manipulation, cell formats, undo/redo, formulas, and more. The programming team (in Portugal) also references a tool called ''Abacus for the Palm Pilot''; however I don't believe it has any Tcl/Tk connection. - Updated: 02/2000 ----- '''More info here''' http://tahoe.inesc.pt/%7Eaml/abacus/abacus.html The following link: http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/HomePages/aml/abacus/abacus.html is dead (as of May 4th 2007). Try: [http://fossies.org/linux/misc/old/abacus-0.9.13.tar.gz/] ---- '''Contact''' Mail to: abacus@algus.inesc.pt - Friday May 4th 2007; I wrote them and my mail was returned. It seems that this E-mail address is inoperative. (Josh) ---- '''Old description on the Applications in Tcl and Tcl/Tk page''' For number crunching and ''what ifs'' in Tcl/Tk plus C++ Extensions - http://tahoe.inesc.pt/~aml/abacus/abacus.html - The old link at http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/HomePages/aml/abacus/abacus.html is dead. ---- '''Comments''' (josh) It would be fun to be able to play around with an exe Windows version of this program, compiled in this manner: See http://wiki.tcl.tk/11861. In fact this program is really complete. It has all sorts of spreadsheet functions built into it. The Portugal Tcl-Tk connection did really '''fine precision work'''! However, I for one would be pretty happy to simply be able to create small unpretentious spreadsheets; I won't need all the sophistication Abacus has. Therefore a small -call it- ''Mini Abacus'' stripped of many functions and holding in a meg or so would do the job perfectly for me and I believe for many of us. <> Application