mshih@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Mitchell Shih) (02/16/91)
Has anyone managed to get Splot to work? I cannot seem to get past the file requestor. Splot is an interactive plotting program for amigaspice. Mitchell Shih (mshih@cory)
skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L) (02/16/91)
In article <11168@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> mshih@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes: >Has anyone managed to get Splot to work? I cannot seem to get past the >file requestor. Splot is an interactive plotting program for amigaspice. > > Mitchell Shih (mshih@cory) SPlot worked great when I tried it. The guys working on it said they would be releasing a new version some time around the middle of January. Guys? Care to comment? Things I didn't like about the program: it would Guru big time if you loaded in a Spice output file that didn't use just .PRINT commands, the screen display was very nice looking but printed output was not true to the screen display (this was one of the things they were supposed to be fixing), and it runs in my mind that the only way to change the screen colors was by editing the program with a sector editor or somesuch. The program is a very big step as far as Spice plotting programs go, but I can't use it to hand in printed work for class yet. Does anyone know the status of this project? --George -- George L. Skank | skank@iastate.edu |Fast cars, fast women, fast computers... Senior, Electrical Engineering |Not necessarily in that order
avadekar@sunee.waterloo.edu (Ashok Vadekar) (02/17/91)
In article <11168@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> mshih@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes: >Has anyone managed to get Splot to work? I cannot seem to get past the >file requestor. Splot is an interactive plotting program for amigaspice. > > Mitchell Shih (mshih@cory) Splot is a POST processor for AmigaSPICE (actually it should handle any SPICE 2G6 variant output). It reads (as the documentation states) the .PRINT data from a SPICE simulation. Hence, you need to use SPICE first. In article <1991Feb16.065041.23717@news.iastate.edu> skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L) writes: > SPlot worked great when I tried it. The guys working on it said they >would be releasing a new version some time around the middle of January. Guys? >Care to comment? Things I didn't like about the program: it would Guru big >time if you loaded in a Spice output file that didn't use just .PRINT commands, >the screen display was very nice looking but printed output was not true to the >screen display (this was one of the things they were supposed to be fixing), >and it runs in my mind that the only way to change the screen colors was by >editing the program with a sector editor or somesuch. The program is a very >big step as far as Spice plotting programs go, but I can't use it to hand in >printed work for class yet. Does anyone know the status of this project? > > --George New version is available by FTP from: sunee.waterloo.edu sunee.uwaterloo.ca 129.97.128.196 Some (or all) of these addresses may not work, try them all before you give up. Documentation is sort of up to date, I haven't the time to work on it ( #define GRAD_STUDENT SLAVE_LABOUR :-) The input parser is significantly more bulletproof, if you catch it bombing, send me the file, and I will try to track the problem down. A config file now allows easier preferences for colors, line types, etc. Output of IFF and HPGL has been added. Printer support has been changed somewhat, but I'm still not happy with it (Intuition is a many wondered, yet complex beast). As I said, I haven't the time to devote overhauling that particular issue. There are now two executables, one using FFP math, the other using direct 881 calls. The (binary) output formats are compatible with each other (IEEE format), but not with older versions of the code. Ashok Vadekar