Siag Office is a tightly integrated

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office package for

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operating systems. It consists of the

spreadsheet A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data entered in c ...

SIAG (" Scheme In A Grid"), the

word processor A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features. Early word processors were stand-alone devices dedicated to the function, but current ...

Pathetic Writer (PW), the animation program Egon Animator, the

text editor A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. Such programs are sometimes known as "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be ...

XedPlus, the

file manager A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders. The most common operations performed on files or groups of files include creating, opening (e.g. viewing, playing, editing or pr ...

Xfiler and the previewer Gvu. Siag Office is known to be extremely light-weight, hence able to run on very old systems reasonably well, such as on

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computers with 16MB RAM. Because it is kept light-weight, the software lacks many of the features of major office suites, like

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, or

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. Siag Office is distributed under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later license. Version 3.6.0 was released in 2003, and the latest version 3.6.1 was released in 2006. Siag Office is included in Damn Small Linux, a lightweight Linux distribution.

Components

Siag

Siag is the

based on the

X Window System The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting wi ...

and the Scheme programming language (specifically using home-grown variant

SIOD Scheme In One Defun, or humorously Scheme In One Day (SIOD) is a programming language, a dialect (computing), dialect of the language Lisp (programming language), Lisp, a small-size implementation of the dialect Scheme (programming language), Sch ...

("Scheme in One Defun")). The program has existed in several incarnations: text-based

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for SunOS, text-based hardcoded

VT52 The VT50 was a CRT-based computer terminal introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in July 1974. It provided a display with 12 rows and 80 columns of upper-case text, and used an expanded set of control characters and forward-only scro ...

for Atari TOS,

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-based for Atari,

Turbo C Turbo C is a discontinued integrated development environment (IDE) and compiler for the C programming language from Borland. First introduced in 1987, it was noted for its integrated development environment, small size, fast compile speed, compr ...

for

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Xlib Xlib (also known as libX11) is an X Window System protocol client library written in the C programming language. It contains functions for interacting with an X server. These functions allow programmers to write programs without knowing the ...

-based for Linux and now Xt-based for

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-compliant systems. It supports import of CSV,

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(.wk1), Scheme Code (.scm), ABScript (.abs), Siag (.siag) native format and partially also XLS files (very limited support) and

OpenOffice.org XML OpenOffice.org XML is an open XML-based file format developed as an open community effort by Sun Microsystems in 2000–2002. The open-source software application suite OpenOffice.org 1.x and StarOffice 6 and 7 used the format as their native an ...

(.sxc). It can export files to CSV, TXT, Postscript (.ps), HTML, Lotus 1-2-3 (.wk1), Troff table (.tbl), Latex table (.tex), PDF and its native Siag format.

PW

PW (Pathetic Writer) is an X-based

for Unix. Support for RTF ( Rich Text Format) allows documents to be exchanged between Pathetic Writer and legacy Windows applications. External converters such as Caolan McNamara's wv can be used to read virtually any format, including Microsoft Word.

HTML The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaSc ...

pages can be loaded and saved, making it possible to instantly publish PW documents on the web.

Egon Animator

Egon Animator is the X-based animation development tool for Unix. The idea is that "objects" (rectangles, lines, pixmaps and so on) are added to a "stage" where they are then made to perform by telling them where they should be and when. It can also edit MagicPoint files.

References

Review

Siag Office is far from pathetic
Linux.com, 2007

External links

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