davidh@dent.Berkeley.EDU (David S. Harrison) (12/21/89)
A new version of xgraph is now available. Xgraph is a popular two-dimensional plotting program that accepts data in a form similar to the unix program graph and displays line graphs, scatter plots, or bar charts on an X11 display. These graphs are fully annotated with a title, axis numbering and labels, and a legend. Zooming in on regions of a graph is supported. The program can automatically generate hardcopy output to Postscript printers and HPGL plotters. A new option allows xgraph output to be directly pasted into idraw for further annotation. This program is NOT a widget. It is a stand-alone program written at the Xlib level and should run on any machine with a reasonable implementation of X11 release 3 or later. The source for the program is available through anonymous ftp to shambhala.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.132.54): % ftp shambhala.Berkeley.EDU Name: anonymous Password: <anything non-null> ftp> cd pub ftp> binary ftp> get xgraph-11.tar.Z ftp> quit % uncompress xgraph-11.tar.Z % tar xf xgraph-11.tar This will create a directory called xgraph-11. In that directory you will find a file called README.INSTALL that contains directions for building the program. I plan to submit the sources to the moderator of comp.sources.x after I have tested the program under X11 release 4 (meaning a few weeks after the X Consortium releases the distribution). Those who do not have ftp access can obtain the source for xgraph using a mail archive system I have installed on dent.Berkeley.EDU (courtesy of Brian Reid at Digital). An example is given below: To: ucbvax!dent!archive-server Subject: send programs xgraph.shar.01 xgraph.shar.02 send programs xgraph.shar.03 xgraph.shar.04 xgraph.shar.05 send programs xgraph.shar.06 xgraph.shar.07 xgraph.shar.08 The archive server will send you these files as time and load permits. They are standard shell archives and can be unpacked by running them through /bin/sh (in order). If you would like to know more about the mail server, send a message with a subject of "help". I am afraid I am no mail wizard so I cannot help you determine a path to dent. For those familar with xgraph, the most important changes are summarized below: - A new data reader has been written that allows discontinuous data in each data set. Also, nearly all of the display options for xgraph can be set in the data file. The reader is also more forgiving about blank lines and excess white space. - A new option has been added to the Postscript hardcopy facility to allow xgraph output to be included in other documents using psfig. As mentioned above, xgraph output can be imported into idraw for further annotation if necessary. - I received lots of complaints about the way xgraph obtains fonts and visuals. The new xgraph uses a much simpler scheme to obtain these resources and has fall back code to insure it will run in almost any situation. - Options handling has been cleaned up substantially. Xgraph options can now be specified as X resources (~/.Xdefaults), in the data file, or on the command line. - Drawing is somewhat faster on some servers due to a better choice of initial defaults. Please send all bug reports, questions, comments or suggestions to the electronic address below. David Harrison UC Berkeley Electronics Research Lab (davidh@ic.Berkeley.EDU, ...!ucbvax!ucbcad!davidh)