Need scientific plotting software for Xenix
Michael A. Wittenauer
maw at pur-phy
Fri May 12 08:47:36 AEST 1989
Does anyone have, or know where I can acquire, a high level plotting package
designed for engineering and scientific use, which runs under
SCO Xenix 286 (2.2.3)? I am a scientist using Xenix in a laboratory setting
and would like to be able to plot data on a display monitor as well as on a
dot matrix printer (NEC p2200). I have the "Computer Graphics Interface"
which came with the development system; but, it is only a sophisticated set
of low level graphics subroutines. Since I am trying to spend my time
doing science, I do not have the time to write my own high level code.
Most of the commercially available packages are designed for business
use; however, my needs do not revolve around pie and bar charts.
The few available engineering/scientific packages are very expensive
(>= $1000) and hence do not fit into my limited budget. There seem to be
quite a few reasonably priced packages available to run under DOS but none
that I have found to have been ported to Xenix.
I know that someone has ported "gnuplot" from Unix to Xenix as I saw a Xenix
archive index listing in which it was included. Unfortunately, the archive
system (rpp386) apparently went off the air the day before I finally got
a dial out version of uucp to work.
Has anyone else fought with this problem? Is anyone else even trying
to do laboratory science on a Xenix system? Is "gnuplot" for Xenix available?
Has someone perhaps written plot software which uses SCO's CGI?
Thanks in advance for the help.
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Michael A. Wittenauer Internet: maw at maxwell.physics.purdue.edu
Physics Dept. (voice) 317-494-5573
Purdue University
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