Nimble, Excel-Compatible Spreadsheets for *nix?

linguae writes "I'm running a FreeBSD desktop on a PC that has a 475MHz K6-2 processor with 64MB RAM. I use lightweight programs on my desktop such as Window Maker, AbiWord, and Firefox. I have been looking for a decent yet lightweight (and preferably Open Source) spreadsheet that is compatible with Excel, and also doesn't rely on dependencies such as GNOME or Java. I'm not an Excel power user, but sometimes I do have to share spreadsheets every now and then. I wonder if there is a spreadsheet equivalent of Abiword?"

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sc -- for super lightweight...

[runswithd6s]

Check out sc. Debian package information follows:

Package: sc
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: math
Installed-Size: 428
Maintainer: Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 7.16-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1)
Description: Text-based spreadsheet with VI-like keybindings
"Spreadsheet Calculator" is a much modified version of the public-
domain spread sheet sc, which was posted to Usenet several years ago
by Mark Weiser as vc, originally by James Gosling. It is based on
rectangular table much like a financial spreadsheet.
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Its keybindings are familiar to users of 'vi', and it has most
features that a pure spreadsheet would, but lacks things like
graphing and saving in foreign formats. It's very stable and quite
easy to use once you've put a little effort into learning it.