This is beta release 1.3.1 of GNU Oleo.  

Oleo is a spreadsheet program (better for you than the more expensive
spreadsheet).  It is an X client and also runs on character-based
terminals.  It can generate embedded Postscript renditions of
spreadsheets.  Keybindings should be familiar to Emacs users and are
configurable by users.

This is primarily a bug fix release.  If you had trouble compiling
1.3, please try 1.3.1.  Pretty much all reported bugs are believed to
have been fixed, so re-reports are appropriate.  A notable exception
is the large number of spelling errors in the doc strings.  I
apologize for those; they'll be fixed in 1.3.2.

New formula functions for manipulating dates and times have been
added.  See the file NEWS for more information.

Bug reports should be sent to bug-oleo@prep.ai.mit.edu.

Oleo users may wish to subscribe to bug-oleo by sending a message to
bug-oleo-request@prep.ai.mit.edu.  Subscribers will receive all
incoming bug reports, some of which may contain helpful information or
(unconfirmed) patches.  If there are enough subscribers, the list
might become a good place to seek or offer help.  The drawback to
subscribing is that subscribers will receive all incoming bug reports
which may contain lots of useless or uninteresting information.

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[This is from the 1.3 announcement, which is still current.]

Introduced in 1.3 were many new features:

- On line help.  ^H is the help prefix.  ^H ^W creates a wallchart of
  keybindings.

- Oleo speaks gnuplot.  The prefix M-g leads to a menu of commands for
  drawing graphs.

- Tax forms.  The first spreadsheet contributed by a volunteer: 1992
  federal and State of Connecticut tax forms.  Load the file `irs-1992.oleo'.

- The keybindings are more Emacs-like.

The file NEWS describes these changes in more detail.

The file USING is the only manual-type documentation there is at this
time.  It is somewhat out of date.  The on-line documentation is more
up to date.

Future plans include:
  - More options for postscript printing than just EPS.

  - Incrementally improving the Oleo command set and display interface.

  - Extending the data model to support
    - Multiple spreadsheet files (like multiple buffers in Emacs).
    - Multiple named variables and arrays within a single file
      (or shared by multiple files).
    - Symbolic addressing (rather than only row/column addressing).

  - A volunteer has offered to work on a manual for Oleo.

