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>Anyway, I was wondering about Table.  Is it a stand-alone package (able
>to be used without the rest of the Andrew world)?

I rather doubt it can be built as an application without building the
rest of Andrew, as it's built atop ATK.

You can fire it up as a separate program.

>Is it a full-functioning spreadsheet, or basic token spreadsheet, to be
>used for simple applications?

Dunno what a "basic token spreadsheet" is, but, as spreadsheets go, it's
not exactly a power user's spreadsheet; it comes across to me as more of
a "proof of concept" spreadsheet, demonstrating that you can build an
ATK view/dataobject combination, usable as an inset, that offers some,
well, basic spreadsheet functionality for simple applications.

I suspect it wouldn't be screamingly fast for sufficiently large
spreadsheets, given that, as I remember, it parses the expression in a
cell every time it's evaluated.

>If Table is not to be recommended, is there any spreadsheet software
>that you would suggest which would be Public Domain or governmentally
>developed??

Beats me whether any government has developed any spreadsheet.  There's
a freely-available spreadsheet for UNIX called "sc", and the GNU
project's Oleo may now be out, although, of course, while Oleo is
freely-available, it's definitely *not* public-domain - it's copylefted.

(It might be an interesting project to try to make Oleo into an ATK
dataobject and an ATK view, to replace "table".)