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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -/* $Header: /cvs/mate/gcalctool/README,v 1.6 2006/01/09 16:30:20 richb Exp $ +/* $Header: /cvs/mate/mate-calc/README,v 1.6 2006/01/09 16:30:20 richb Exp $ * * Copyright (c) 1987-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. * All Rights Reserved. @@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ CONTENTS: 1. Introduction. ---------------- -This is v5.32.0 of gcalctool, the calculator application that was previously -in the OpenWindows Deskset of the Solaris 8 operating system. +This is v5.32.0 of mate-calc, the calculator application that was previously +in the OpenWindows Deskset of the Solaris 8 operating system. Sun Microsystems Inc. have kindly given me permission to release it. It incorporates a multiple precision arithmetic packages based on the work @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ There is a single graphics driver for Gtk2 included with this release. See the file 'INSTALL' -The manual pages also describe how to use gcalctool in detail. +The manual pages also describe how to use mate-calc in detail. There is a TODO file included which lists current bugs, and the enhancements that will hopefully be added in the future. @@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ enhancements that will hopefully be added in the future. -------------------- Calctool was a project I worked on before I joined the OpenWindows DeskSet -engineering group at Sun. It was originally released to comp.sources.unix -in the late 1980's, and worked with many different graphics packages -including SunView, X11, Xview, NeWS and MGR. There was also a version +engineering group at Sun. It was originally released to comp.sources.unix +in the late 1980's, and worked with many different graphics packages +including SunView, X11, Xview, NeWS and MGR. There was also a version that worked on dumb tty terminals. It used a double-precision maths library that was a combination of the work @@ -54,19 +54,19 @@ of Fred Fish and various routines that were in the BSD 4.3 maths library. A lot of people in the community provided feedback in the form of comments, bug reports and fixes. In 1990, I started working in the DeskSet engineering group. I was working for Sun Microsystems in Australia at the time, (having -moved there from England in 1983). +moved there from England in 1983). I searched around looking for multiple precision maths libraries and found a package called MP written in FORTRAN by Richard Brent. I converted it to C, -adjusted the glue between the resultant code and the calctool code, and this +adjusted the glue between the resultant code and the calctool code, and this went on to be the basis of the calculator that was in the OpenWindows DeskSet. -I also added scientific, financial and logical modes. This calctool was also -the basis of the dtcalc application that is a part of CDE (albeit I had +I also added scientific, financial and logical modes. This calctool was also +the basis of the dtcalc application that is a part of CDE (albeit I had nothing to do with that). -With its inclusion in the MATE CVS repository, it was renamed to gcalctool. +With its inclusion in the MATE CVS repository, it was renamed to mate-calc. -More recently, Sami Pietila provided arithmetic precedence support and +More recently, Sami Pietila provided arithmetic precedence support and Robert Ancell converted the UI to use Glade. @@ -80,4 +80,4 @@ See the AUTHORS file. Suggestions for further improvement would be most welcome, plus bug reports and comments. -The Gcalctool Team. +The Mate Team. |