ah314368@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Vincent Huffaker) (04/04/91)
Hi! I just discovered this group so please forgive me if this is a FAQ. I need to locate a program to generate simple x-y plots (in postscript). We're getting a couple of Sun workstations in (SPARC2) and we're standardizing on Postscript. We need a way to make simple plots. Does anybody have any such code (or know of where it can be obtained)? We have C and FORTRAN compilers. I'm sure that there's all kind of software we can buy (e.g., PV-Wave), but we don't want to spend a whole lot of money (at this point, anyway). Thanks, Vincent Huffaker e-mail = ah314368@longs.lance.colostate.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- No, I don't have a .sig file and thanks so much for reminding me.
kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin Thompson) (04/04/91)
In article <13962@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> ah314368@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Vincent Huffaker) writes: >I need to locate a program to generate simple x-y plots (in postscript). >We're getting a couple of Sun workstations in (SPARC2) and we're >standardizing on Postscript. We need a way to make simple plots. > >Does anybody have any such code (or know of where >it can be obtained)? We have C and FORTRAN compilers. I like jgraph -- posted to comp.sources.misc on January 5, thus available from uunet.uu.net in dir comp.sources.misc or some such. The author is Jim Plank, jsp@princeton.edu. Written in C, it has a pretty flexible input language to specify graph layouts labels etc. Kevin Thompson -- kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) (04/05/91)
In article <13962@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> ah314368@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Vincent Huffaker) writes: > >I need to locate a program to generate simple x-y plots (in postscript). The xyplo program is available by anonymous ftp from ncifcrf.gov in the directory pub/delila. Get all the files that begin with 'xy' in binary mode. One of them is the program in Pascal, another is the same in C. To compile in C, you will also need 'p2c.h.Z'. Example input files are given. Output is in PostScript. Documentation is in the source code. Questions, problems or comments? Email to me. Also, please tell me what happens if you do try the program. Tom Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Mathematical Biology Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 toms@ncifcrf.gov
composer@chem.bu.edu (Jeff Kellem) (04/06/91)
In article <13962@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> ah314368@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Vincent Huffaker) writes: > I need to locate a program to generate simple x-y plots > (in postscript). We're getting a couple of Sun > workstations in (SPARC2) and we're standardizing on Postscript. > We need a way to make simple plots. > > Does anybody have any such code (or know of where > it can be obtained)? We have C and FORTRAN compilers. Check out gnuplot, currently at version 2.0 patchlevel 2. It is available via anonymous ftp from cs.duke.edu. The command language is easy to use. Gnuplot can be setup to display/print on various types of devices, including X windows and PostScript; it comes with a nice array of supported devices. A patch to support "dumb" devices was recently sent to developers and debuggers of gnuplot; I haven't checked it out yet, but if it works, I would suspect that it would be included in the next release. But, on the other hand, I'm only an interested observer. ;-) Enjoy... -jeff Jeff Kellem Internet: composer@chem.bu.edu
lampard@janus.trl.oz (Greg Lampard) (04/08/91)
In article <11585@ptolemy-ri.ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov>, kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin Thompson) writes: > In article <13962@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> ah314368@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Vincent Huffaker) writes: >>I need to locate a program to generate simple x-y plots (in postscript). >>We're getting a couple of Sun workstations in (SPARC2) and we're >>standardizing on Postscript. We need a way to make simple plots. >> >>Does anybody have any such code (or know of where >>it can be obtained)? We have C and FORTRAN compilers. > > I like jgraph -- posted to comp.sources.misc on January 5, thus available > from uunet.uu.net in dir comp.sources.misc or some such. The author is Jim > Plank, jsp@princeton.edu. Written in C, it has a pretty flexible input > language to specify graph layouts labels etc. > > Kevin Thompson > -- > kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA I looked at jgraph, but I prefer gnuplot. Mostly because the default graphs look nicer (with two very minor modifications to the PostScript file) and it supports terminals other than PostScript so you can preview and plot graphs with the same package. Also written in C and has a flexible input language to control the form of the plot. Send mail to pixar!info-gnuplot@sun.com for further information. (I can't find the ftp address that I got it from, sorry) Greg ============================================================================ Greg Lampard Optical Networks Section Internet: g.lampard@trl.oz.au Telecom Australia Research Laboratories Phone: +61 3 541 6360 770 Blackburn Rd, Clayton. 3168 Fax: +61 3 543 3339 Victoria, Australia. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------