SLZ7P@cc.usu.edu (02/18/90)
I am looking for a good public domain (or freely copyable copyrighted program) graphing program that I can install on our sun. I'm looking for something that can be used to quickly and easily create fairly simple plots. I would prefer that it be interactive but I'm also looking at c or Fortran callable routines. It must be able to support both tektronix and Postscript. So far I have found 3 (I have not been looking very long) that might fit our needs. gnuplot - very easy to use but with very limited power. Ideally I'd like something along these lines but with better graph formatting capabilities. There is supposed to be a new release of gnuplot sometime. Does anyone know if it's out (and where) or when it will be out? Gnuplot is the only one of the 3 I have actually used. The other 2 are vplot and giraphe3. I have looked briefly at both but have not had time to actually install and run them yet. I'm not even sure that they do what I described above but I recently ran accross them and want to find out more about them. Can anyone give me any info on these two? Also, does anyone have any suggestions on other programs that might be better? I realize this has probably already been talked about often, but I do not read this newsgroup regularily. If you would email me your info. I would really appreciate it. If anyone else is interested in a summary of the responses, tell me and I'll either mail a summary to you or post it if I get a lot of requests. Thanks in advance for your help. -- -- S. Beck -- slz7p@cc.usu.edu (or slz7p@usu.bitnet)