SLZ7P@cc.usu.edu (02/23/90)
In message <18799@cc.usu.edu> I asked for information about public
domain (or freely copyable) graphing programs for the sun. For anyone
interested, here's a summary of replies so far. If you know a good
graphing program that's not listed here, I'd still like to hear about it.
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In response to your query for a graphing tool for your Sun.
You might try grtool - it is available via anonymous ftp from
cse.ogi.edu [129.95.40.2]. It is still in beta test (and given
the time I have to spend on it, may always be), but is widely
used and is known to be useful. What do you mean when you say
'supports Tektronix', Tek 40xx, Tek41xx, printer, plotter?
While drivers for Tek products are not included with the distribution
they are available. Grtool requires SunOS 4.0 or greater, which
can be a problem if you are running 3.5 or less. There is a curses
version that is compatible with grtool that does run under older
versions of SunOS.
Grtool is located in pub/grtool/grtool-1.03beta.tar.Z, remember to
set mode to binary. While I haven't officially released 1.03 I
would use it over 1.02.
Paul J. Turner - pturner@cse.ogi.edu
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There is vopl (Very Ordinary Plotting Library) which includes
a graph plotting program. It runs on suns, apollos, X11, TEK,
POSTSCRIPT and PC's. It does autoaxis scaling, log-log etc
and has a variety of fitting options.
It needs another package called vogle (Very ordinary graphics
learning environment) as this has the basic graphics drivers
for all the different devices.
To get this stuff: anonymous ftp to munnari.OZ.AU (128.250.1.21)
set binary mode, get pub/graphics/vogle.tar.Z and
pub/graphics/vopl.tar.Z
Bernie (bernie@murtoa.cs.mu.OZ.AU, bernie@munnari.OZ.AU)
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I would like to recommend that you go to the amiga.source archives and
there is a library of graphing programs called plplot. I have
installed these on our system of SUNs and uVAXs, and I have had no
problems. Not only is all the source code public domain, but the
drivers are very easy to write (Xfig took 1/2 hour). It supports 2d
and 3d graphs, meshes, log axes, etc.
If you need mroe info, check the amiga.sources archives, or contact
me.
Tracey Bernath
University of Waterloo
Waterloo Ontario
CANADA
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the latest and greatest gnuplot is under pre-beta release testing here. my
officemate is incorporating many of the features of the old gnuplot and his
improved gnutex, which did latex plots very well. the new version does
nifty things like polar plots, and has drivers for MANY display devices.
i don't know when he plans on releasing the beta-test version. probably
within a month. the final version may take a while before it gets out. you
will definitely hear about it when it is released.
Vick Khera Department of Computer Science
ARPA: khera@cs.duke.edu Duke University
UUCP: ..!{mcnc,decvax}!duke!khera Durham, NC 27706
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Thanks again for your replies.
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-- S. Beck
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