graphing software for SGI

[James M Winget]

You might find that GNUPLOT provides the requested 2D plotting capabilites.
It was recently posted to comp.sources.misc, heres part 0 of 13. I've been
using (older versions) for several months. My typical exec version includes
both the IRIS (shared GL) and Postscript (encapsulated) drivers. I preview
the plot interactively, set the output to postscript, and "replot" to generate
hardcopy. Works great!


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Article 590 of comp.sources.misc:
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From: thaw at ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU@pixar.UUCP (Tom Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.misc
Subject: v11i065: Gnuplot 2.0 - 0 of 14
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Date: 26 Mar 90 00:10:02 GMT
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Posting-number: Volume 11, Issue 65
Submitted-by: thaw at ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU@pixar.UUCP (Tom Williams)
Archive-name: gnuplot2/part00

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#!/bin/sh
# This is a shell file to make directories
mkdir term demo bugtest docs docs/latextut translate
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Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility
for UNIX, MSDOS, and VMS platforms.  The software is free.  It was
originally intended as graphical program which would allow scientists
and students to visualize mathematical functions and data.  Additions
to this version of the software allow production of publication quality
plots and data graphs.  Gnuplot supports many different types of
terminals, plotters, and printers and is easily extensible to include
new devices.  [ The "GNU" in Gnuplot has nothing to do with the Free
Software Foundation, the naming is just a coincidence (and a long
story). ]


Gnuplot Features:
  Cartesian and Polar plots.
  Logscale graphs.
  Intelligent Tic spacing.
  Optional Autoscaling.
  Support for complex numbers.
  VMS-like online help.
  User-definable functions and variables.
  All the builtin functions C, FORTRAN, and BASIC provide.
  All the unary and binary operators supported by C, and more.
  MANY formatting features, such as labels, grids, and arrows.
  Support for Saving and Loading work in progress.
  Command line substitution.
  And lots more....


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Here are my diffs for the Makefile (the only changes I had to make):

22c22
< CFLAGS = -DGAMMA -O
---
> CFLAGS = -DVFORK -DBCOPY -DBZERO -DGAMMA #-gx #-O
52,55c52,55
< #TERMFLAGS =  -Iterm -DAED -DBITGRAPH -DDXY800A -DEPSON -DHP2648 \
< #	-DHP26 -DHP75 -DHPGL -DHPLJET -DIMAGEN -DKERMIT -DLATEX -DEEPIC \
< #	-DPOSTSCRIPT -DPROPRINTER -DQMS -DREGIS -DSELANAR -DTEK \
< #	-DUNIXPLOT -DV384
---
> TERMFLAGS =  -Iterm -DAED -DBITGRAPH -DDXY800A -DEPSON -DHP2648 \
> 	-DHP26 -DHP75 -DHPGL -DHPLJET -DIMAGEN -DKERMIT -DLATEX -DEEPIC \
> 	-DPOSTSCRIPT -DPROPRINTER -DQMS -DREGIS -DSELANAR -DTEK \
> 	-DUNIXPLOT -DV384 
57,58d56
< TERMFLAGS =  -Iterm -DIRIS4D -DPOSTSCRIPT
< 
106c104
< LIBS = -lm -lgl_s
---
> LIBS = -lm -lplot
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Hope that helps,
Jim
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James M. Winget
Silicon Graphics		(415) 962-3654
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