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Re: sc stands for super computer

From	DFS <nospam@dfs.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: sc stands for super computer
Date	2017-04-19 14:30 -0400
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On 4/18/2017 12:06 PM, Steve Carroll wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 9:59:37 AM UTC-6, DFS wrote:
>> On 4/17/2017 10:11 PM, owl wrote:
>>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> The takeaway: use Microsoft Excel 2007 or later for all your important
>>>> spreadsheet needs.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Nope.  Use sc.
>>
>>
>> Is that the consensus among the 3 other sc users in the world?
> 
> LOL!  The retro coolness of software like sc isn't at all appealing to you?
> (take your MS shill hat off before you answer)


To me it's just a toy tool for quick-n-easy stuff, cloned from 1979's 
VisiCalc.

But it's neat you can script it for some things.

It has an enormous manpage
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/man1/sc.1.html


>> First it was special bathrooms.
> 
> What special bathrooms?


The kind sc users "fought" so hard for.

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Re: sc stands for super computer DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-17 19:26 -0400
  Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-17 16:51 -0700
  Re: sc stands for super computer owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-18 00:11 +0000
    Re: sc stands for super computer DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-17 21:22 -0400
      Re: sc stands for super computer owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-18 02:11 +0000
        Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-17 19:23 -0700
        Re: sc stands for super computer DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-18 12:00 -0400
          Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-18 09:06 -0700
            Re: sc stands for super computer DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-19 14:30 -0400
              Re: sc stands for super computer owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-19 20:02 +0000
                Re: sc stands for super computer DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-19 20:47 -0400
                Re: sc stands for super computer owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-20 02:31 +0000
                Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-19 19:48 -0700
          Re: sc stands for super computer Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-18 09:27 -0700
            Re: sc stands for super computer Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-18 09:57 -0700
          Re: sc stands for super computer owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-18 19:58 +0000

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