FM> As for programming these things, well a basic spreadsheet implementation
 FM> isn't that difficult - Borland actually include a reasonably
 FM> comprehensive one as example code with the Turbo Pascal compiler. Of
 FM> course if you want a flash GUI and all the stuff that Excel or Quattro
 FM> for Win have, that's a lot harder. I know, I've done it.

Assuming you were writing under something like Windows, how
would you handle the fact that the cells can be increased in
size by the user?  That means you can't define a whole lot of
input cells, which I believe you could do if they were of
fixed size.  BFN.  Paul.
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