davidh@dent.Berkeley.EDU (David S. Harrison) (04/10/89)
Xgraph for X11 is now available. This program is a port of the popular 2-dimensional plotting program orginally developed under X10. In almost all respects, this program is compatible with the older xgraph. This program is NOT a widget. Like its predecessor, it is a stand-alone program that accepts input in a graph-like format and plots the data on an X11 screen. Scatter plots and a limited form of bar graph plotting is also possible. Zooming in on regions of a graph is supported. This version also includes much improved support for generating hardcopy graphs to Postscript printers and HPGL plotters. 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: <your login name> 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. The source has also been submitted to the moderator of comp.sources.x in shar format. 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)
davidh@dent.Berkeley.EDU (David S. Harrison) (04/13/89)
I have received several messages from people who ran into problems running xgraph on X11 R2 based servers. Most complained that xgraph cannot find an appropriate axis font. Xgraph uses a utility routine to try to find an appropriate font given a desired font size. This routine uses the font naming conventions developed for R3. If you are running an R2 server, you should change the font expression in the routine ux11_size_font in the file xgraph-11/ux11/ux11n_font.c to one that better matches your font set. For example, several people have compiled Xgraph on HP machines running an R2 server. Changing the font expression from "*-medium-r-normal-*" to "hp8*" works for these displays. David Harrison UC Berkeley Electronics Research Lab (davidh@ic.Berkeley.EDU, ...!ucbvax!ucbcad!davidh)