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-/* $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.