GreyTrout.com
Title
GreyTrout Software - Read and Write Excel XLS Files on Linux and Solaris using Perl, Python, and Tcl
Description
GreyTrout Software is a North Carolina-based company founded in 1999 for the purpose of bringing high-quality data-manipulation tools to the UNIX community. SpreadScript and NExS are our current products. SpreadScript provides Perl, Python, and Tcl with a spreadsheet calculation engine that reads and writes Microsoft Excel files. NExS is a X Window spreadsheet with client-server and Internet-connectivity features.
The concepts behind SpreadScript and NExS were formed at North Carolina State University during an effort to develop and deploy a scalable distributed computing environment based on X Windows and UNIX. There was very little user-oriented X Windows software available at the time, and a GUI-based spreadsheet was seen as a necessity. A key feature of the spreadsheet was its ability to communicate with other applications using the client communications built into X. This let the spreadsheet serve as a hub and user-interface for a distributed community of data producers and consumers.
The NExS spreadsheet retains the design concepts originated in the NCSU spreadsheet while replacing the source code with a robust, streamlined spreadsheet engine, Motif-based GUI, and an application programming interface that supports the construction of sophisticated distributed applications.
Languages
English
Contact
- X Engineering Software Systems Corp
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- Raleigh NC
- US 27606
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