whicker@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu (Gary Whicker) (10/26/89)
Hello net! I recently read a messagee asking about the availability of a plotting program for the Amiga. The poster mentioned a programmer/friend who said it would take 3 months to port a good plotting prog from his sun. I would think that if he used the PD PLplot library, it shouldn't take that long. In fact it would just involve making the front end. Has anyone seen any programs that use PlPlot?
phao172@ut-emx.UUCP (Randy M. Roberts) (11/06/89)
In article <2986@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> whicker@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu (Gary Whicker) writes: >Hello net! > > I recently read a messagee asking about the availability of a plotting >program for the Amiga. The poster mentioned a programmer/friend who said >it would take 3 months to port a good plotting prog from his sun. I would >think that if he used the PD PLplot library, it shouldn't take that long. In >fact it would just involve making the front end. > > Has anyone seen any programs that use PlPlot? > In answer to your question, I have not seen other programs using PlPlot, but I have ported PlPlot to a BSD4.2 unix(TM) system on our Encore Multimax machine here at UT. I used the BSD plot(5/3X) package. I have it create plot(5/3X) files which I then post to the terminal of my choice with the plot(1) utility. We even have a printer deamon which understands the plot(5/3X) file language. It was real easy. The only thing I did a little weirdly was to change all the float's to double's in Jim's PlPlot libraries. I've got a lot of my thesis project hooked up to PlPlot. They run the same on my Amiga and my Unix(tm) box. PlPlot is well worth your effert to port to any system. I have some X11R3 experience, and feel the port to the X window system would be a piece of cake. Regards, Randy -- Randy M. Roberts phao172@emx.utexas.edu