cchen@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Chyouhwa Chen) (10/31/90)
Hello, World, I just want to put out a few good words about an excellent graph layout program, called DAG, that I recently acquired from AT&T. I've been looking for such a program that would compute the coordinates for the nodes and edges given basically a connection matrix type of things or its equivalent as input. DAG does the job exceptionally. It fits in with the pic, troff suites of processors, and generates pic or postscript commands. Optional instructions are also available for attaching labels, controlling spacing, and specifying how nodes are drawn, etc. If you need to display finite automata, data flow, any kind of graphs, I think this program will be of great help. To be impressed, read their paper on Software - Practice and Experience, vol 18, num 11, page 1047-62, 1988. I received my binary copy free from Mr. North(north@ulysses.att.com). He has been extremely helpful in the matter. I have no idea about their policy on non-academic distributions. Disclaimer: I'm in no way connected with AT&T except I use their long distance telephone service.