Siag Office
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Anyone remember it  [1],[2],[3],[4]? In the dark past  it was sometimes
includes in  Linux distributions.  For a  period of time  I used  is to
convert spreadsheet  files from  HP 200LX (WK1,  WKS probably,  I don't
remember) to something more common.

It was something strange - from  program names (SIAG means "Scheme In A
Grid" By the way) to the implementation. They were are very lightweight
(some variation  of Athena X11  widget set  was used, their  own Scheme
interpreter was used as a scripting language).

Of course there  was no support for common office  formats (DOC/XLS and
so) but it supported  some older formats liker the RTF  [5] or WK* (the
old DOS  Lotus 1-2-3 spreasheet,  you know [6]).  Parts of DOC  and XLS
files were able  to be imported with use of  external utilities. But it
of course supported  things like LaTeX text and tables  export and even
troff tables export.

It seems that is is abandoned for  at least 13 years (mailing list ends
in 2009) but it seems to be still available [1].

I think  that even I have  had it compiled  (and working) on one  of my
SGIs. If I'm not mistaken it ran very fast even on very slow hardware.


References:

[1] http://siag.nu/
[2] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Siag%20Office
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siag_Office
[4] https://archive.org/details/tucows_9958_Siag_Office
[5] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Rich%20Text%20Format
[6] gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Lotus%201-2-3

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